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The right to blasphemy | 138 comments (138 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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You are a property rights fundamentalist :-)

Have you read John Stuart Mill's discussion of property rights?

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Feb 3rd, 2006 at 12:34:16 PM EST
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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?

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.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.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (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.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Feb 3rd, 2006 at 06:17:30 PM EST
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The right to blasphemy | 138 comments (138 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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