September 27, 2023

Self Ownership

Chester McAteer

Upon being asked what is the "Natural position of Propertyā€¯?

The following is my response:

The first and natural principle of private property rights can be answered by asking the question: Do you, as a human, own yourself? If you do concede that right of self ownership, then you must also concede that your labor is nothing more than the extension of your life, which you own with no other claims upon your life but your own.

Personal liberty therefore, must give you the right and therefore, the freedom to think without undue pressure from external forces to command what is and is not socially acceptable to think, with the right to think comes the extension to the freedom to express those thoughts, again without undue external forces that would seek to suppress such speech as either heretical or politically undesirable.

To express yourself in writing or to freely associate with others all stem back to self-ownership. If therefore, you concede that you are in fact, the sole owner of yourself and that, as you have expressed yourself in your post freely, without external compulsion, coercion or force, that all the Rights I've listed and untold Rights I've not listed do, in fact stem from the right of self-ownership and yet you then deny a person any private property rights in the ownership of material goods, property or wealth then you are holding two diametrically opposed beliefs at the same time and yet, somehow believing both.

The two are inextricably intertwined, you cannot have one without the other therefore, if you take away one you take away the other, you in fact, take away the humanity of a person and attempt the impossible task of taking away natural proclivities of human action which are installed into human DNA. It is for this reason that social engineering collectivist schemes such as Communism, Socialism and Fascism always fail and only voluntary systems such as Capitalism succeed.

Tim adds:

I wrote about this here and here.

Today we live not in a free society but in a fascist dictatorship where the State owns us, body, mind, and soul.

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1 'Fraid you are absolutely correct, Tim. And I am at a loss to say what we are to do about it.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at September 28, 2023 10:22 PM (djD2v)

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