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Waldron points out what an odd thing extensive
property rights really are and how unusual a
principle of initial acquisition is. Such a
principle would have a form something like this:
Waldron asks whether we have any other moral principles similar to this? They would have to be moral principles that allow an individual to create moral obligations for others by performing some simple acts? Not only that, but the obligations involved here are very serious. We are talking about scarce resources that are sometimes necessary for life itself. Yet theories like Nozick's insist that someone can do A, whatever A is, and suddenly everyone else is obligated to limit themselves and perhaps even go without food or clothing or shelter because someone else has done A with respect to the available resources. Waldron doesn't think there are any other principles like this one. I agree. At the very least, a principle like this requires a clear and powerful justification. I hate to say it, Dee, but I don't think you have supplied anything close to that. |
Since you insist on discussing the possibility
of generating exclusive property rights in the
state of nature, I want to introduce an idea
from Jeremy Waldron's book The Right to
Private Property.|
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