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[quote user="banned"]I make the claim, People have a right to act . This claim is irrefutable since to attempt to disprove it assumes a right to act. If people have the right to act they have a right to controll their body in forming action, this is ownership.[/quote] That someone has a "right"...
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[quote user="Stranger"]The state doesn't have any property titles. A property title is granted by a third party.[/quote] A state - just as any legal person - can have property titles. And what about homesteading, that's not necessary granted by a third party. Do property titles have...
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[quote user="Brainpolice"]No it does not. [/quote] No it does, or rather as I have written it may : "...Being of some nation etc. may imply certain duties, rights and norms as well..." [quote user="Brainpolice"]It only does if we assume a false premise, I.E. legitimacy....
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Perhaps one should first make sure we have consensus on what is used by social contract theory.[quote user="twistedbydsign99"] So I'm wondering what the best argument you guys feel, against the social contract theory, is? I suppose its just that entering into a contract without having to...
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[quote user="libertarian"]There are no "rights" under anarchy[/quote] ... Rights are a mental construct, even without anarchy. [quote user="libertarian"]They do whatever the subscriber wants them to do. Individuals would ultimately collaborate together and come up with peaceful...
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[quote user="leonidia"] [quote user="gethky"]A criminal act is defined in law.[/quote] Yes.[quote user="gethky"]There was such a thing as unwritten common law way-back-when, but nowadays all laws are written [/quote]So what? Laws don't have to be written to be laws....
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All right, here we go: 1. By merely releasing a slave without due process you run the risk of having the sherriff/bounty hunter return the slave and bill you for the bounty. 2. A criminal act is defined in law. There was such a thing as unwritten common law way back when, but nowadays all laws are written...
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[quote user="Stranger"] Liberty is not a virtue, it is a right. To recognize other men this right is a virtue, humility. [/quote]Neither Virtue nor Right. A Virtue is a trait of a person, something that he has cultivated and works consistently up to. I.e. Honesty is a virtue in the sense of...
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Some good points you are making here. [quote user="Grant"]If human rights do not come from nature , god, or some part of the environment and universe in general, it seems to me that they must come from other humans . Saying that rights come from man's nature qua man is nice, but it doesn't...
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[quote user="jsh"]You endorse the state when you vote.[/quote] You also endorse the state when you use its' roads, pay taxes, attend its' schools, and go to its' libraries. There is very little you can do that is moral. In light of these observations is voting for Ron Paul really...