Rights and wrong
Since Mr Crichton picks up on the phrase “despotic inroads on the rights of property”, he might care to consider what interfering with “the rights of property” might entail in a particular case.
Suppose I were to own in their entirety the northern counties of Scotland and decided to clear the human inhabitants off the land to whatever Godforsaken places they might fetch up in.
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Hide AdWould that be fine and dandy, because I own the land and so can do as I like with it? Or might such clearances legitimately be halted by the state, thereby making inroads on the supposed “rights of private property”?
Paul Brownsey
Department of Philosophy
University of Glasgow
As much as I enjoyed the early stages of the debate in these pages about Marx, I wonder if the relevant correspondents wouldn’t mind swapping e-mail addresses and continuing the conversation between themselves.
As the man himself said: “Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
Angela Innes
Dundas Street
Edinburgh