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The Law, by Bastiat
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"The delusion of the present day ... is our attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it. "

--- Bastiat


Lesson 63 - Inalienable Rights of Man Print E-mail

 

Let us follow this reasoning to it's conclusion, and stipulate the following:

A man has a right to his own life. 

This means that he has a right (a moral justification) to live if he wishes to live, and he does not have to ask permission of anyone.

Since rights are equal, it follows that a man cannot live rightfully by imposing his will upon the life of another who has exactly the same rights as he.

Thus, it would follow that:

Each man has a right to sustain his own life. 

This is true since life always occurs in space and time.

Life is not an instantaneous affair.  It exists through time and in space.  If you have a right to live at a given instant, you have a right to prolong that instant as best you can, without of course imposing on the equal rights of others.

This means that:

Each man has a right to own property. 

The only way that man can live is by using and consuming property.  Man is completely dependent upon property to survive and live.

This means:

 



 
 

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