To: ninenot
348 - "Property rights are a subset of human rights."
Read it again. I was referring to the concept of 'intellectual property'.
Property rights are pretty well, commonly understood, though not totally.
Like, as I found, if I had a 7 shirts hanging out on a wash line, drying, one could be 'honorably' stolen, while if I had only one hanging out on the line it would not be stolen. You see, with 7, I had more than I needed, so it wasn't really stealing.
But the concept of 'intelectual property' was univerally not understood.
351 posted on
12/21/2003 10:18:39 PM PST by
XBob
To: XBob
Intellectual Property is subject to "property rights" as is your land, car, and house.
Same concept. Socialists will not get it.
As to excessive property--in the Jud/Christian tradition, it is NOT up to those in need to, ah, re-appropriate the items. It IS an obligation of the owner to charitably utilize the property. IOW, if you have 7 shirts and someone is naked, you damn-near-automatically hand him one or two of your shirts.
356 posted on
12/22/2003 8:11:04 AM PST by
ninenot
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