Re: Wages, Inflation and Social Security

From: Socialism is a Mental Disease (root_at_localhost.)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:23:34 GMT

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:06:39 GMT, New Dark Ages
<nda@ignorance.is.bliss.invalid> wrote:

>root@localhost. wrote...
>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:48:44 GMT, New Dark Ages
>> <nda@ignorance.is.bliss.invalid> wrote:
>> >
>> >> It remains for you. For me, it doesn't. For me it's a matter of first
>> >> principles, namely, that I have the following rights: life, liberty
>> >> and property.
>> >
>> >Well, you're certainly entitled to your little ideology.
>>
>> It's not an entitlement, it's a right.
>
>Heck, maybe we agree. How do you define "property" and "liberty" ?
>

Property (strong sense): whatever one creates and does not relinquish
control of. Derives from the Principle of Self-ownership.

Property (weak sense): whatever one controls exclusively through the
threat of use of force.

Liberty: the freedom to do as one pleases as long as not infringing on
the equal rights of others. 

-- 
"A society that robs an individual of the product of his
effort... is... a mob held together by institutionalized
gang rule." -- Ayn Rand

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