A note about your text: Be sure to have someone carefully proofread your text before submission. "Home", for instance, is not a verb. It's a noun. We do not "home people". One must use the verb "house" (the verbal form is pronounced 'howze" ). — Bitter Crank
home v.
1. trans. To provide with a home; to find a home for. Freq. in pass
In order for your state to effectively insure that citizens are actually free, — Bitter Crank
And it's an especially bad idea to be wrong when pride precedes a fall! — Barry Etheridge
This isn't as much a criticism of libertarianism as it is a dismissal of it. — Hanover
The freedom referenced by libertarians is rooted in the right to property ownership. — Hanover
Your reference to "walls and fences" I suppose must be figurative because... — Hanover
This is the very specific form of libertarianism popular now in the USA, not libertarianism as it has been generally understood — mcdoodle
To take an example opposite and equally silly to your shirt, if I happen to own the whole world, and my property rights are unfettered, then you are in trouble unless I happen to like the cut of your jib. And take your shirt with you on your way out, but don't use any of my launchpads. — unenlightened
While making that assumption there isn't much to be said in regards to those who think that all property is theft except "no it isn't" which isn't very interesting. But if you can think of an interesting way to engage with that flavor of anarchist, please let me know. — Dan
My point is that the removal of one's property through threat of force, such as threat of prison, is a form of theft. — Dan
I will be discussing useful, interesting and difficult objections in my thesis and anything you contribute will be referenced appropriately. — Dan
I reject this dichotomy entirely and say that property ownership, if it exists at all, is a relation between a person and an object (or objects) which endows the person with the moral right to make decisions regarding that object. — Dan
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