[Craig, previously] > Individuals should not be free to claim > whatever they want as their property, because conflict will result. > Nor is no ownership good, because without responsibility, things > deteriorate. > A better system is where some things are privately owned & some > owned in common, as appropriate.
[Platt] > The question will always be, "What's appropriate?" Does the MOQ > suggest an answer? I think it's best to answer the easy questions of ownership first, before proceeding to the difficult cases. The easy cases of private ownership: owning your own body & your own effort. (So much for "from each according to their ability".) The easy cases of common ownership: scarce natural resources: land, air, water, minerals. (We do sometimes grant "ownership" of these, but usually subject to "eminent domain", rules of conservation, etc.) Easy principle of ownership: one should be free to exchange what one owns when it does not harm others. Are these data that the MoQ needs to explain or are these conclusions which can be derived from the MoQ? Craig Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
