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Originally Posted by iamnotawerewolf
Put another way - something is "my property" only insofar as others (especially the state) act in accordance with a set of entitlements attached to that thing.
You can pay someone $1,000,000 for the Washington Monument and then tell people you don't want them to photograph it.
If everybody accepts that the power plant is public/shared, the guy saying "but it's mine because I bought it" will be just as frustrated.
You have a right to free speech as long as people with clubs don't come at you when you say something that they don't like.
All rights work like that. There are no "natural" rights. There are cultures, and they decide collectively which rights are worth upending.
And what i am saying is that among the very few most important rights there are property rights. They are conductive to high quality of life and more peaceful and productive societies.
You can disagree, and i see many people here seem to disagree. And i understand that your position in this forum is "communism talk is allowed because we don't think property rights are fundamental for societal well being". [please correct me if i am wrong]
FWIW my position is that no political discourse should take place that allows for infringement of basic human rights. No political position that asks for asevere restriction to fundamental rights should be dignified (if it was my forum that is). That includes nazism and communism, deranged people asking to remove women voting rights, people advocating for sharia law etc etc.
My position is different than yours but i respect freedom and property rights. This is not my place and you have all the rights (from my PoV) to censor whatever content you want to censor.
I asked a question and i think i got my answer, so i say thanks to all that helped me getting an answer.