• ssboomman@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I agree with you there. My point is that a government is not needed to have private property. Governments are inherently violent, but you can be violent without a government.

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          Where is the line drawn between a government and a legitimized systemic form of violence?

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            There is no line, legitimate violence is just one of the services a government is expected to perform

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              It’s only “expected” to perform other services because its violence prevents us from doing those things apart from it.

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                If you want to pave roads, build bridges, and run charities, the government won’t stop you

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                  1 year ago

                  As already pointed out, it absolutely will stop you. Also, try doing any of those things on land claimed by private entities such as capitalists, and watch how quickly the state’s goons arrest and/or shoot you.

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            Again, no one said that. All I said was that violence was needed for protecting private property. Not that all forms of violence is useful for it.

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              You’re really bad at logic. “You can be violent without a government” does not imply you can necessarily protect private property without a government. Because being violent isn’t enough to protect private property. Only certain forms of violence are (forms which you haven’t done anything to show can be performed without a government).

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                Jesus Christ, I’m not bad at logic, you’re just an idiot. A really really confident idiot.

                Violence is needed to protect private property.

                Government is useful for protecting private property. This is because governments are inherently violent.

                Does this mean that governments are the only way of protecting private property? Absolutely not. A dude with a gun can protect private property.

                Does this mean that all forms of violence are useful for protecting private property? Absolutely not. But again, a dude with a gun can do a fine job protecting private property.

                I’m not trying to debate you man, you’re an annoying debate lord, for the love of Christ fuck off.

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                  OK liberal.

                  You have no clue what private property even is, dude. It’s not simply some kind of thing someone claims for their own. Private property is literally property which is used to exploit other people’s labor and material needs. Your toothbrush is not private property. Your car is not private property. The house you live in is not private property. That land you rent to someone else just so they can live is private property. That factory you force people to work in so they can put food in their mouths because they have no access to land or other sources of sustenance…those are private property.

                  So yeah: good fucking luck protecting land and infrastructure you don’t have the capacity to even use on your own with a gun. Again, NO: the capacity to do violence, alone, is NOT sufficient to protect private property. You need a lot more than that. Your ability to beat your wife doesn’t make you able to patrol a large swath of agricultural land and make sure nobody encroaches on it. Your ability to shoot someone doesn’t make you capable of keeping workers out of a factory that is rightfully their collective property by virtue of the value of the blood, sweat, and tears they used to build and run that factory, especially when they have the capacity to do violence themselves and there’s no state to keep them from exercising it in self-defense.

                  You fucking ignorant dope.

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                    1. I’m not a liberal you dumbass
                    2. Everyone knows the difference between private and personal property
                    3. You absolutely can protect private property without a government. If someone ownes a factory, or extra houses for rent, or access to a natural resource like water, or even infrastructure, and someone else rightfully tries to take it from them, and they patrol it with a gun to defend it, is that somehow using a government? No? Then shut the fuck up you breaindead fucking donkey.

                    You are wrong. Literally just objectively wrong. Stop showing your ass. Go read some therory and maybe some history. Governments has never been the only way to protect private property. Private militias, private security forces, and other forms of non government violence have always been used.

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                If I say something is mine and you disagree, a violence happens and whoever is left standing has private property. QED violence enforced property.

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                  That’s not what private property is. You can read my other comment if you care, or you can just go on feeling confident that you were right in swooping in and backing up the ignorant raving of some idiot liberal. I don’t really care. 🤷

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                    First, you are a very unpleasant person. Second, that’s a weirdly specific definition of private property. Last, if I need to exploit other peoples labor to derive value to have private property, and we’re using violence to do it, then we just invented slavery again.