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JamesCarlin27 karma

"the purpose of law is to protect property rights"

This is only half-true. By saying "the purpose of the law is X" you implicitly seek to evade the other purposes and values implicit in law. The purposes of law are many-fold, as are the underlying human values.

P.S. You appear to have left off "physical," since if I.P. were property, that would undermine your entire argument.

JamesCarlin18 karma

You say intellectual property is unjust because it is involuntarily enforced upon non-consenting individuals, and yet support enforcing physical property norms on non-consenting individuals.

How do you reconcile the above?

P.S. The complaint that property is involuntarily is commonly and loudly made by communists and various individuals of leftist persuasion.

JamesCarlin6 karma

Do you reject all norms regarding intangibles?

JamesCarlin3 karma

Libertarian values generally say "a person may do as they please with their person or property, unless they violate the person or property of another."

So gun ownership is permissible and even fought for by most libertarians. Though that ownership tends to not include "shooting at your neighbors."