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I am, in that "property rights" does not refer only to (say) my house or my car but also to my body and my fundamental rights as an individual.  People -- not you -- sometimes get too caught up on the word "property".

I read Mill a long time ago, so I'm sure I would remember what he said if I read it, again.  What'd he say?

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Feb 3rd, 2006 at 12:40:58 PM EST
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I mean, I was struck by the fact that your objection to posting antisemitic slogans on my house stemming from the fact that it lowers the property values of my neighbours' houses. I'll quote Mill when I get home.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Feb 3rd, 2006 at 12:47:17 PM EST
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What did Mill say... Well, about 20 pages at the beginning of Book II of his Principles of Political Economy.

I was thinking of the part where he says, after considering how Communism might work, the principle of Private property has never yet had a fair trial in any country; and less so, perhaps, in this country than in some others. The social arrangements of modern Europe commenced not of just partition or acquisition by industry, but of conquest and violence: and notwithstanding what industry has been doing for many centuries to modify the work of force, the system still retains many and large traces of its origin.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Feb 3rd, 2006 at 06:17:30 PM EST
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