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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
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Subject: Re: property rights
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Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 10:11:58 EDT
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In article <860@whuts.UUCP> orb@whuts.UUCP (Tim Sevener) writes:
>When it comes to a conflict between *individuals* basic civil liberties
>and the rights of property, many of both schools show their true colors
>by defending the rights of property.  Which hardly demonstrates a
>valueing of anything other than greed and selfishness.

The counter-argument is that property rights are essential to
individual rights, since property is produced by individual
effort and one cannot be free if one is not free to determine
for oneself how to dispose of the product of one's work.

>This should hardly be news when one of Ayn Rand's major works is
>titled "The Virtue of Selfishness".

Perhaps you should read this to see (a) what her definition of
"selfishness" is (it's different from yours) and (b) why she
considers it a virtue.  You don't suppose the title was an
accident, do you?