Frankly, I don’t see why you think you’ve a right to it. Let me remind you that for you the concept of legitimacy is meaningless. The gov’t controls the land so it belongs to the government - ownership is exclusive control and all that. As long as your utilitarian view of things goes, that’s the end of the story.
And now you understand the tragedy of public ownership. Everyone and no one is right.
Stranger, I used to think that both open and closed borders were government institutions. But then I realized that open borders are the same thing as no borders. With open borders, there is no government institution; just private property borders remain. With closed borders however, the government imposes itself and takes control of private property borders. And since there are no borders under anarchy, the problem cannot be with open borders, but with something else, viz. government property and antidiscrimination laws.
Your thoughts?
I have long understood the tragedy of public ownership. I also think that public ownership, so long as it exists at all, should be interpreted for MAXIMUM LIBERTY. This way we can legitimately cheer as protesters harass politicians even if we would not tolerate such behavior in our own homes. We can consistently cheer as people file into the middle of a congressional session preventing a vote on raising taxes. Am I making sense here? Using your theory of public ownership Congress would have a “right” to throw such people out of their buildings.
ZOMG! WTF? What about the many taxpayers against whose will marijuana decriminilization is not?
The fatal assumption in your retort is that “taxpayers” are homogenous. News flash: they’re not.
My thoughts is that there are even more borders under anarchy, so your argument is based on false assumptions.
Maximum liberty is the liberty to use one’s own property. You do not own public property and therefore cannot claim the right to determine what takes place upon it.
You have confirmed the thesis that open-borders advocates are anti-social and want to create public disorder.
There’s an active thread on this matter. This adds nothing new to the discussion. I am closing this thread. Please do not duplicate threads on the same topic, when there is already one addressing the issue.