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in blurt •  2 years ago  (edited)

I would like to ask you something else. You react very strongly with everything that has to do with property rights. These seem to be very important to you.

Do you have any idea why?

A good question that I'll try to answer as best I can while keeping many of the specifics hidden.

In my life I've traveled hard roads.

I've been hunted like an animal more than once.

I've had all of my possessions taken from me more than once.

It gets tiring to try building something only to have a force greater than oneself strip it away and be powerless to stop it.

There is a loss of not only the property that is hard to come by, but a denigration and humiliation to having these things taken from you that you came to view as yours.

The heart weeps that others can view ones sweat and accumulations as something they can lord over and take from you. Or dictate how you use it. Life is such a struggle, many hardships involved just to build a little something. To have the game set up to allow it to be taken from you makes it not worth even playing the game.

There simply has to be some area where we can respect the property of others. I don't see how any other path allows for anyone to have dignity or be free of a scarcity mindset when one is worried that at any moment all of ones physical accumulations can be taken or restricted.

If I feel I have the right to dictate how you use your property, then I'm in effect admitting that I and my desires are greater than yours and your property.

One side example of this are the growing amount of what are called homeowners associations here in America.

They tell you how often to work in your yard, the types of property you can have outside and where, the colors you can paint your house etc. They also take votes for neighborhood projects. My associate went through this years ago. They wanted speed bumps put in the neighborhoods. He voted against it, but the vote was majority for the speed bumps. So he was given a bill for thousands of dollars to help pay his share for the speed bumps he didn't want.

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