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by panglott 3258 days ago
If a man shows up with a gun to run me off my land, it doesn't matter whether it was my father that bought it or my grandfather or my great-grandfather. What's important is the forcible dispropriation itself.

Cases like this just make a mockery of the Lockean natural rights theory of property.

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I made no comment on if it was right or not, I simply maintain that there is an important distinction there.