> This is where your logic fails.
>
> On an island without a government, people can legitimately band
> together to defend rights, but not to violate them. People do have
> the right to determine whether or not someone else will be allowed to
> sell goods within their combined and/or collective property. This
> means they can grant this power to government. Nobody on an island
> has the right to tell another person what medicines they will or won't
> take, what weapons they will or won't own, or what religion they will
> follow. This means they can't grant this power to government.
>
> Tariffs are legitimate. Drug laws, gun laws, abortion laws, and and
> religious laws are not.
I'm not sure how my logic fails in the face of your illogic.
Obviously, any property owner has the right to determine whether or
not goods will be sold on his property and if so under what
conditions. The missing link is just exactly how you get from that to
the notion that a bunch of property owners get to draw imaginary lines
on property that they DON'T own and charge a fee to anyone (including
one of their fellow property owners) who wants to exercise his right
to convey and/or trade his property as he pleases, said fee allegedly
in return for services that he may or may not want to purchase, and
may or may not ever use.
There may be a way to determine whether or not you really mean what
you say. Let's use your hypothetical island:
There are ten property owners, each with one equal parcel of land on
the island (all property is owned). Nine of the parcels are on the
island's perimeter, one is in the center.
The owner of the parcel at the center of the island decides he wants
to import some diamonds from the mainland and sell them.
One other parcel owner (one of those with a parcel on the coast at one
side and adjoining the importer's parcel on the other) agrees to allow
the center parcel owner to have the diamonds landed on his coastal
parcel and transported across it to the central parcel, where they
will be sold.
Do the other eight parcel owners have any right to demand that the
importer pay a fee for this importation, or not? If so, why?
Tom Knapp
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