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Question: Opinion of seizing private properties not in use to house the victims
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Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« on: June 19, 2017, 07:42:11 PM »
« edited: June 19, 2017, 07:49:40 PM by Trounce-'em Theresa »

Massive freedom idea. Legitimate ownership consists in doing something with one's property that's of some use, ideally to others but at the very least to oneself. (This isn't even a specifically socialist concept; it appears in some form in both Aquinas and Locke.) If these were National Trust properties, or even properties that were already being rented, my perspective might be different.


RFayette, I have a lot of respect for you, but it's dismaying that you've (in my view) over-committed to right-wing ideology to the point where you're criticizing folk heroes from eight hundred years ago for not being loyal Reaganite drones. You don't see me saying King Arthur is "bad too" for being a non-constitutional monarch.
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Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2017, 08:08:20 PM »

Also, coming from anybody hand-wringing over the abstract ideological implications of this proposal in the face of the human suffering it's meant to address, I'm never going to take insinuations about left-wing ideas being "great in theory, but..." or utopian exercises divorced from reality seriously ever again.
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