Comments on: The new definition of libertarianism: May I see your documents please? http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/10/23/the-new-definition-of-libertarianism-may-i-see-your-documents-please/ Not a real vee Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: doctorvee http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/10/23/the-new-definition-of-libertarianism-may-i-see-your-documents-please/comment-page-1/#comment-22320 doctorvee Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:01:06 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/10/23/the-new-definition-of-libertarianism-may-i-see-your-documents-please/#comment-22320 Not so. "A totally privatized country would be as “closed” as the particular inhabitants and property owners desire." Surely the whole point of private property is that the right to be in the street is not assumed for all people inside the country at all. As long as property owners decide that their property is "closed" nobody has any right to walk on the street. Not so. “A totally privatized country would be as “closed” as the particular inhabitants and property owners desire.”

Surely the whole point of private property is that the right to be in the street is not assumed for all people inside the country at all. As long as property owners decide that their property is “closed” nobody has any right to walk on the street.

]]> By: The Pedant-General http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/10/23/the-new-definition-of-libertarianism-may-i-see-your-documents-please/comment-page-1/#comment-22298 The Pedant-General Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:15:34 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/10/23/the-new-definition-of-libertarianism-may-i-see-your-documents-please/#comment-22298 "So if the government has to check people “at all ports of entry and along its borders” to stop unwanted foreign people from trespassing on private land, surely it has check people walking down the street aswell to ensure that unwanted people are not trespassing on private land." Nope - not at all. This right is assumed for all people inside the country - that's the whole point: once checked in at the border you too have the right to be in the street. “So if the government has to check people “at all ports of entry and along its borders” to stop unwanted foreign people from trespassing on private land, surely it has check people walking down the street aswell to ensure that unwanted people are not trespassing on private land.”

Nope – not at all. This right is assumed for all people inside the country – that’s the whole point: once checked in at the border you too have the right to be in the street.

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