No, it didn’t. It was about the value of a person’s labor.
That wasn't the conversation with
dblack. That was the first discussion of mine that you interrupted and got clowned on.
I’m not confused at all about the argument I addressed. I didn’t address any of those arguments; I addressed your comment about a worker’s value. Specifically, what I saw as your misconstruction of his remarks.
And you got embarrassed in that comversation when the person I was speaking with (not
dblack) used the word
value in the same way I did while you were claiming confusion. Your own confusion.
But you’ve already said numerous times that rights themselves are subjective.
And? The conversation you interrupted with
dblack is where I began to question whether any of you understood the difference between the objective and subjective in this thread with regards to rights and equity.
I'm happy to admit where I'm confused by your point. The objective there is to get you to clarify your point rather than making one up for you as you do.
And why is that important enough to spend months talking about it? It takes force to remove someone from one’s property. So what?
Force is objective, rights are subjective. That was my point. I don't know why you spent months confused by it. I know what my argument was.
If F=MA is all you’re talking about then you might as well say it takes force to push a shopping cart.
It also takes force to create and maintain private property. I was talking about
that instead of shopping carts. If you want to talk about shopping carts, be my guest. I don't.
Why do you have a problem with questions about opinions when you express them all the time?
I express them, I don't solicit them. My feelings I'm happy to express, I don't care about yours.
Nope. That’s not what you said at the beginning.
Use of force is always a choice. Therefore, it doesn’t even apply in your second feeble argument where physical force is used.
There's what I said and then there's what you think that meant. It wasn't about when people choose
not to enforce property
rights, it's about when they do. It's the establishing and maintaining of private property I'm talking about, not the abandoning of it. Remember,
rights are subjective. When you ask me what the point of continually mentioning that is it's this. The
establishment and
maintenence of subjective property rights requires objective acts of force. If you don't want to force some subjective notion about what property or resources you have a
right to then I'm not talking about that.
This is what is known as…wait for it…a counter argument.
It's you making up things my argument has nothing to do with and isn't about and pretending as if it's addressing the issue. My argument is about the subjectivity of rights verse the objective uses of force used to establish and maintain them. Not the absence of rights. If you aren't trying to establish your right to something then my argument isn't about that. It's about when you do.
You said property is acquired through force so I asked where this is the case today and you have failed to produce any evidence of this.
I said it's acquired and maintained by force and before you go confusing what that means allow me to explain.
In the beginning there is land. To aquire the private rights to said land if people are on it requires force. To maintain your right to it for others who may wish to access it and it's resources for themselves, also requires force.
Famously, there were a lot of people on this land previously, let's call them
indigenous, you know, just at random. And then along came people from another land, let's call them
colonizers, who removed those people, established this land for themselves and then grew this society around it. Now that society has a government and people who they call
law enforcement who you know en
force the law. Including laws that say such and such has a
right to such and such property.
All caught up?
That’s not what the question asked about.
No but that is what my argument is about. Why are you bothering me with your own thing instead of addressing what I'm talking about? I don't care about your thing where no one is doing anything. It's uninteresting.
You mean like law having hands is imaginary?
I can't help it if you're so stupid you took that literally.
“What's the point of the question? Are you trying to build some sort of objective argument out of it?”
A question that seems to vex you.
That's called confusion. See the question mark at the end? Why are you wasting my time with your fantasies about what I'm feeling? I was trying to ascertain whether you had an objective argument to make.
That’s why I asked the question, dumbass.
And I gave you an answer. I can't help it that it didn't satisfy you but it's the one I got for you.
Everything about this discussion suggests to me that this means more to you than just objectivism-vs.-subjectivism or that it takes physical force to remove someone from your property like it takes force to push a shopping cart. This is why I keep asking the question but you keep dancing around it with your subjectivism rhetoric.
And I'm amused at how caught up you are in my emotions. Why are you so thirsty for feelings?
Holy shit. You don’t give opinions when asked you fucking liar. You give them without solicitation and then when one is solicited, you bitch about it and say things like:
“That sounds like a feelings question to me.”
or
“See. Another feeling question.”
Which you just said in your last post.
Yes. Because I express the feelings that I want to, not the feelings you want me to. Maybe the problem is you imagining more servility than exists within me.
But you’ll offer your own opinions without being asked, right?
Whenever the fuck I feel like. Yes.
