Travis Bemann (bemann at execpc.com) wrote: > Do *any* businesses, or industries for that matter, have a "right" to > exist?
This is based upon the right of property -- i.e., to maintain an exclusive privilege of use over a physical resource. I think most people (including me) believe in the right of property (for the simple reason that it prevents people from killing each other as often). Given that, people have the right to use their property in any way they please so long as it does not harm someone else. This includes trading. A business is just a bunch of people working together. If it's OK for one person to exist and trade stuff, then it's OK for two people to get together as a team and trade stuff. Then you have a corporation, but without the legal protection. The problem is the legal protection. Corporations have *more* rights than people do in this country; they are allowed to commit crimes for which ordinary (non-rich) people would be imprisoned or even killed. Summary: corporations good, special privileges for corporations bad. -- Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." greg at wooledge.org | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers http://wooledge.org/~greg/ | -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 240 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/chat/attachments/20020119/907c56b0/attachment.pgp>
