Property Rights Debate

This cluster discusses the nature, enforcement, and legitimacy of private property rights, debating whether they are inherent, socially constructed, or dependent on government authority.

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Sample Comments

qntty May 15, 2016 View on HN

Lack of private property doesn't need enforcing, it's the existence of private property that needs enforcing

smegsicle Jun 5, 2023 View on HN

in other words property doesn't exist because government grants it, government exists because everyone agrees its better than personally defending their property

aninhumer Apr 17, 2016 View on HN

Until you have a property system there is no "other people's" stuff.

jknoepfler Nov 16, 2017 View on HN

Your property rights are secured by the government you live under. The government you live in doesn't exist without the consent of the governed (unless you live in one of the many autocracies/despotisms/theocracies/etc. in the world). "Allowing" is the correct word.

JetSpiegel Apr 3, 2019 View on HN

That's just might makes right, there's no property there since you can take what you want.Property implies you use the state (an external entity) to enforce your rights, providing checks on individual power, not that you enforce it yourself.

locallost Jun 7, 2024 View on HN

Historically a lot of property was forcefully removed from their owners, and it was such a success that it became one of the foundations of modern societies. Slaves for instance were property until societies decided that human rights take precedent to property rights. Also laws don't govern natural order, just how societies of humans want to function, so if they decide they want to prioritize one over the other it's their right. With all that in mind, I can definitely see the world whe

AdrianB1 Apr 28, 2019 View on HN

The right to live and to have property that was legally acquired. Otherwise is just a new form of feudalism.

kelseyfrog Sep 19, 2022 View on HN

You can just say property. No judgement here. Property rights form the basis of society.

cycrutchfield Aug 14, 2023 View on HN

You’ve never understood the concept of property rights?

throwawa14223 Nov 8, 2023 View on HN

People don't have rights over others private property that's the of the basis of human rights.