[Graybeard58]

"Government has no other end than the preservation of property." - John Locke

[jonestown]

Graybeard58 wrote:

"Government has no other end than the preservation of property." - John Locke

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True enough, if we acknowledge that an individuals rights to life & liberty take precedence over 'absolute & arbitrary' rights to property.

And in fact, this Locke quote from the posted article is one of the few remarks in it I question:

John Locke:
-- "For nobody can transfer to another more power than he has in himself, and nobody has an absolute arbitrary power over himself, or over any other,

< to destroy his own life, > ??

or take away the life of property of another."

Does Locke think society has the power to stop a man from 'destroying his own life' through his own folly?