Originally Posted by Phil Hoskins
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In a world in which property Rights are respected, it remains an issue of private property rights in that as a result of a possibly flawed ventilation system your Right to peacably enjoy your property (through ownership of the apartment or ownership of the leasehold) is compromised.

Rhis is why i started the thread as I did. Where did this "property right" come from? Who says there is such a thing other than those who own property and keep mouthing the same statement over and over?

Oh, I know, natural rights, except they were never included in the Constitution except for the provision I quoted to start the thread.

People have rights, not property. That was heavily debated in the forming of this country and was rejected in favor of the Consitution which is conveniently ignored when desired results are in conflict.


Our Rights are not derived from the Constitution, Phil, so let’s not go in that direction. The concept of Man’s natural Rights (including property Rights) flow from Man’s rational mind as easily and as naturally as water from an artesian well. The man who builds a barn knows naturally that it is morally his to do with as he pleases. A man who exchanges something of value for the barn another man built knows naturally that it is morally his to do with as he pleases. So to does a man who converts assets into or exchanges something of value for a business. He knows naturally that it is his to do with as he so desires. And his neighbors naturally recognize that it is his property because they recognize that what they possess is their property to also do with as they see fit.

How much more difficult it is to convince a man that what he creates or obtains is not really his. To dispossess him of such a natural thought a complex and convoluted theory of “non-ownership” and “fallacy of property” must be developed and then, through an un-natural and tortured reification, inculcated into his worldview.
Yours,
Issodhos
p.s. If ya wanna have some real fun with the Constitution, try finding “public accommodation” in it.;-)

"When all has been said that can be said, and all has been done that can be done, there will be poetry";-) -- Issodhos