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Originally Posted by filtherton
Property rights don't exist in a vacuum.
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Strawmanning my argument is a poor way of shrouding "we didn't like the way they used their property" without a real defense.
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It is the public's business. When the collective action of a bunch of racist landlords begins to affect people who have nothing to do with said racist landlords, then it becomes the public's business.
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It's a dangerous definition of 'affect' that includes the withholding of privileges that you were never entitled to. Red Cross should totally sue me for not being generous with them.
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In other words: landlords had the right to rent to whomever they wanted, but couldn't handle it, so that right got taken away.
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Plainly false. People like
you couldn't handle it. They handled it in a morally terrible way, but they handled it just fine. Others like
you couldn't handle the way they handled it and had a legislative tantrum.
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That's often what happens when people can't exercise their unenumerated rights in responsible ways; they lose those rights.
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There are plenty of ways in which we are allowed to be irresponsible and SHOULD be allowed such. We draw the line - responsible people do, anyway - at where such irresponsibility deprives someone of something they are entitled to, and no further. We don't redraw the line simply when we don't get what we wanted.
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Perhaps the founders were a bit shortsighted in that they specifically failed to include the right to discriminate against entire classes of people when they drafted the bill of rights.
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They also failed to include gay marriage. Guess this thread is pointless.
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Perhaps they believed that the ownership of property shouldn't guarantee the absolute right to do whatever one wants to do with that property.
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Again, no one is arguing for an absolute right. Try switching out your easy one-liners for something relevant.
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I prefer much more realistic limitations on property rights.
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I think you chose 'realistic' because it looked pretty in that sentence. I can't fathom how it actually applies to your view in a way that excludes mine.
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That's not how a free market ought to operate.
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Says you. Run your own property differently.