Why don't liberals recognize that only property rights can protect so-called "human rights?"?

Question

If you wish to guarantee the right to freedom of speech, to a free press, or even the right to be free from slavery, you must guarantee the right to private property to protect those rights. If there is no private property, then the government has the ability to determine who may say something and therefore to censor anybody who opposes the government. The government will only permit those who support it to write in a newspaper.

And, without property rights, what is preventing the government from making everybody into its slaves to do with as they wish?

It is clearly obvious that so-called "human rights" depend upon property rights in order to exist. The Soviet Union's citizens had alot of rights, including the right to free speech according to the Soviet Constitution, but everybody knows they didn't actually have any rights. So, why are liberals such opponents of property rights, especially when it is impossible to protect "human rights" without private property?

Answer 1

This is one of those "right of capital" arguments. Where capital (money or property) has equal rights with the individual.

Sorry, the Declaration doesn't say that all dollars are created equal and the Bill of Rights doesn't address the rights of capital.

Answer 2

That logic makes no sense. Homeless people do not own property, and they have the same "human rights" as everyone else. Actually, the opposite has happened. The more property you own, the more "human rights" are given to you. Donald Trump was in financial trouble in the '80's, and the banks bailed him out. Would they have done that with a Middle-Class minority?

Answer 3

I am a liberal who defends property rights. But your argument about human rights being premised on property rights does not make sense - at least to me.
For that matter, the only people in my state who attack property rights (by way of eminent domain) are staunch conservatives; the sort of people who have no qualm in destroying an old neighborhood for a strip mall, or car dealership.

Answer 4

We DO know a newborn's precise to exist - as long as this is latest exterior somebody else's physique. I take place additionally to renowned a woman's precise to have sovereignty over what happens interior her own physique, and featuring what happens - or does not take place - interior her own uterus. I honestly do no longer think of that MALE politicians have any organisation in besides in telling females what must be allowed to take place interior a woman's womb. Your "rights" end precise on the tip of my nostril.

Answer 5

Your rant makes no sense. Since when do "liberals" want to take away property rights? And how does owning property pertain to rights as humans?

Answer 6

You are so right. Liberalism however is contrary to human nature, that is it's failing. A wonderful dream who's implementation insures slavery

Answer 7

Why do Democrats want to leave you with less disposible income?

Easy. The less discretionary money you have, the less you can afford to defy an all-powerful, paternalistic government.

If you economically control your life, the government has less control over you. If the government grabs the lion's share of your income so that you become dependent on those Socialist "freebies", you're sunk. The government figuratively owns you!

Think of the Liberal democratic strategy like this: it used to be that people wanted a nice big house in the suburbs with as much open land as possible, a swimming pool, a tree house fort for the kids, and a huge garden.

Then our careers started demanding more and more of our time. Commutes to work got longer. People stopped wanting that huge lawn that had to be mowed for three hours every weekend. The pool was an invitation for a lawsuit.

The tendency towards laziness started encouraging people to get town homes where all the landscaping was taken care of. No painting, no worrying about a leaky roof. It was like hotel living.

The Liberals want to make government-controlled living just like this. They want to lure people away from an independent style of life to one where it just seems like too much of a hassle to do anything for yourself. Let the government figure out your health needs, let the government take more of your money and your retirement in sunny Florida is your reward.

Imagine Hillary's Socialist health plan becomes law. Soon, taxes will have to be raised to pay for it. As the system gets more and more overloaded, taxes will skyrocket. As our taxes approach that of Socialist countries like Finland or Norway, people won't have enough discretionary income to opt for private health care, and the Liberal's vision of Socialist medicine will prevail. Lack of money = lack of choice.

That's the plan folks. Do we really want to become defenseless?

Answer 8

Not sure I follow your argument. How does owning property protect me from arbitrary arrest, from being tortured or from having my phone tapped by the government?

Answer 9

ok then lets just split up the property

every american gets so much land,,, ..

if we were aiming for socialism,, anyway,,,

Answer 10

i get it

money is ur God

this is the gang members mentality
it is ur turf and u will kill anyone who says different