Property rights are not inalienable

Proposer
otfrom
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Accepted

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3727 days


@otfrom edited index.md - about 10 years ago

We believe that individuals should be:

  • Free to act in any manner that does not harm another individual or their property, and does not infringe upon the rights of other individuals.
  • Free to act in any manner that does not harm another individual, and does not infringe upon the rights of other individuals.
  • Enjoy a fundamental right to privacy from the state or their agents.

In short, we wish to ensure government remains open and transparent, whilst individuals retain liberty and privacy.

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otfrom

@otfrom - about 10 years ago

I'd rather we didn't have property rights as one of the central principals.

timcowlishaw

@timcowlishaw - about 10 years ago

Strong agreement with this from me 👍

PaulJRobinson

@PaulJRobinson - about 10 years ago

oooohh interesting, and slightly controversial (in my view) as I favour property rights and don't see why anyone else should be able to interfere with my 'stuff' as long as I'm not using that 'stuff' to damage others (ie weapons; bulldozers; polluting cars etc).

Happy to go along with omitting this, but wouldn't wish to start making explicit anti-property pledges. That would be too 'red' for my taste. So on the basis of this as a deletion only it gets a caveated 👍 from me.

with kind regards, Paul Robinson

about.me/pauljrobinson

On 13 January 2014 13:57, Tim Cowlishaw [email protected] wrote:

Strong agreement with this from me [image: 👍]

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/openpolitics/manifesto/pull/72#issuecomment-32170941 .

Floppy

@Floppy - about 10 years ago

Certainly. Any proposal to change existing property rights would need another PR, and most likely a massive argument and probably a fork, so we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. This is just to keep the assumption out of the core principles. 👍