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From: nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.individualism
Subject: Re: Phil Ronzone's stereo
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Date: 17 Jan 90 16:44:00 GMT
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Phil Ronzone posts...

>I DON'T decide WHO has property rights. That may be the burning
>issue in your mind, but not mine.

>I ASSERT that my property is my property and that no one has
>the right to take it without my permission.
     ^^^^^
 
  In other words, Phil doesn't care WHO has property 
  rights as long as HE has property rights.   Actually,
  I don't really disagree with him on this; in practical
  terms it is this understanding that results in the social 
  consensus that produces most systems of rights. 

  Nevertheless, when that consensus goes away so do the 
  rights.   If Phil was a Jew in NAZI Germany, or a
  Panamanian under Noriega, or a Panamanian in the line
  of U.S. fire in the recent invasion, he could "ASSERT"
  his rights until he was blue in the face and it wouldn't
  have done him any good.  The world has seen lots of common
  graves filled with people who have asserted their rights
  in such a manner.

  Of course, Phil would say that this is wrong.   Wrong by 
  his standards or Peter Nelson's?   No, absolutely wrong;
  wrong by universal standards; dead wrong.  How does he 
  know this?   He won't tell us -- I guess that's just
  Phil's little secret.

                                            ---Peter