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Originally Posted by Galt
How does allowing the government to confiscate one's property promote individual rights?
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It ensures everyone starts out on equal footing.
By arguing for inheritance rights, you are supporting a system that people receive possessions as a result of what their parents earned, rather than what they individually earned themselves.
I'm not the first person to argue that individual rights depend on everyone starting out equally from birth...and it seems like common sense to me that wealth gained by birthright has little to do with the individual's achievements.
It doesn't matter if there is a will or not. You asked what if you believed that individual rights were in your best interest...only by making sure that everyone starts out in the economic race with $0 dollars in his or her pockets does the system secure that one's success will be based on one's own endeavors and achievements rather than those of a wealthy benefactor.