Originally Posted by
helmuth_hubener
Surely you understand that this is the crux of our disagreement! Yes?
You say: Man didn't create the universe, so it must be held in common for all humanity.
I say: OK, maybe we didn't create it. Let's privitize it anyway.
If you, Explorer Redbluepill, ramble along into a vast uninhabited wilderness and claim some of it, there's no one there whom you are ripping off. No one's rights have been violated. Other people show up later, you're not ripping them off either. They didn't create the universe! They have no right to it! You found it, you claimed it, it's yours.
Perhaps that's the root disagreement from a moral perspective: You think "OK, here's a universe, here's human beings, the human beings didn't create the universe, so we all have a equal right to the whole universe." I, on the other hand, think "OK, here's this universe, none of us can show any proof we created it, so nobody has a right to any of it." Then it just becomes a practical matter of splitting it all up in a way that doesn't violate anyone's rights. That's an easy fix: homesteading. Just go claim and use stuff no one else is claiming. Since nobody has a right to any of it, no foul. In your philosophy, big foul, against all humanity no less, because everybody owned, owns, and will always own, whatever stuff you just claimed.
You say everybody has just claim on the empty universe, I say nobody does.
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