Monday, November 06, 2006

Only that Which is Natural is Permitted

Libertarians frequently point to the illegitimacy of government due to its unnatural quality; since it is an artificial creation, it is illegitimate. But what they fail to realize is that property is unnatural - nature does not dictate or care which human being controls which piece of land or any other thing that humans value. So if a person is going to reject anything that is not natural, then they must reject property.