🚀 go-pugleaf

Another poster wrote:

>>No one would deny, for example, that destroying the
>>private property of the German railways taking people to Auschwitz would 
>>have been a very good thing to do. 
>

Brian Yoder wrote:

>Since such railroads were "stolen property" (stolen by the government from 
>the previous owners) and since the property was being used to violate the
>rights of others (the concentration camp victims), it is a matter of 
>self-defense (even proxy self-defense) to bomb them.  It is a situation
>analogous to a policeman taking a gun away from someone who has stolen from
>me.  If you know what property rights and and why they exist, it is quite
>simple to see when they apply.

Yes, for example: since all the property in the Western Hemisphere was stolen
from its previous native owners and used to violate their rights, sometimes
rather genocidally, Earth First! e.g. is probably just engaging in belated
self-defense -- or maybe it's "proxy self-defense".

For that matter, all property everywhere is stolen from its previous fauna 
and flora and commonly used to drive the majority of its species inventory
extinct -- perhaps a worse violation of "natural rights" than even genocide. 
To prevent such destruction, by force if necessary, is just "proxy 
self-defense", as Brian Yoder says, and as Edward Abbey says as well.

"If you know what property rights really are and why they exist, it is quite 
simple to see when they apply." Yup, we'll remember that one. And "proxy
self-defense" -- I really love that concept. That's exactly what is needed
of us humans -- a "proxy self-defense" of the Earth, the endangered common 
property of all life. Thanks for that thought, Brian.

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Alan McGowen