You have an independent mind and body, no one can take that away from you - you were born that way.
On that premise, what you create or earn is yours, and if it is within a society, it should be protected by society from others that might steal it.
Hence property is an inalienable human right, recognised by civilised society.
People can and do take it from others regularly though. Property isn't inalienable - right? People's lives and property are constantly alienated and exploited by others, I hate it personally, but what makes it "wrong"? Or what makes it a right in the first place?
What makes stealing property wrong is that it is detrimental to life. Life being the ‘standard’ of what is good (improves life) or evil (destroys life).
It harms the life of the individual who has lost their property and society overall as others decide not to create or own property on the basis it will only be taken from them.
Only civilised societies recognise this, essentially individualist capitalist societies. When this is not occurring, query the society you live in.
"Life being the ‘standard’ of what is good (improves life) or evil (destroys life)."
What makes this true?
For a living being, death is the end.
Drafts in Nostr are weird - anyway I don't understand where you're getting your oughts from. Why is life good? Like why are you optimizing for that? Isn't your why to that question because you like it? To be clear I like it too, but it boils down to preference, right?
Life or death is binary. So life is essential for being, therein not a preference.
In that context anything that strengthens that position (improves likelihood of life continuing) is good, as opposed the opposite.
It depends on each individual’s unique background, make up, and circumstances for what those things might be at any point in time.
Didn't you just swap "being" in for "life"? My why question still would apply to being.
What makes "being" good? Your preference?
Again on my side I think that's all I have to answer that question of what makes being good. I wish I had a stronger answer, but it seems preference based, not objective
Leave it with you to think further. Interested if you reach a solution.
I used ‘being’ only for explanatory reasons for what life is.
