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Originally Posted by u-Bob
Correction: Everyone has the right to use violence. But only in self defense. It's the initiation of violence that is immoral. Initiating violence = aggression.
It's the institution of private property that separates man from the animal kingdom. Under the law of the jungle the strong prey on the weak. Under a system of private property, no matter how strong you are you have no right to violate another individual's property rights.
Under a collectivist system, the "collective" ("the state", "the majority",...) preys on the individual. A collectivist system is not much different from the law of the jungle. Collectivists are simply better at coming up with excuses to "justify" their acts of aggression.
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Land belonged to the Native Americans, you lot came along and privatised it. I think you used a great deal of VIOLENCE in making land which belonged to everybody into land that belonged to a few.
In England the first thing capitalism did was with violence throw people of common land and into to cities where they were "free" to work if they did not want their children to eat rat.
This idea of free contracts is also a myth, free would be if both sides have equal power. Example Rio Tinto Zinc lock out all thier miners from the factory until they agree to return to work with reduced pay poorer conditions, The police and State support the "right" of the company to reduce a whole community to poverty.