[Peace-discuss] EWJ and Locke

[E. Wayne Johnson]

There is little doubt that some property rights are held collectively,
while some individual property rights entail interactions with others 
and therein
indeed is a justification for the rule of law.

Bob Illyes wrote:
> Incidentally, Wayne refers to Locke's premise regarding the source of 
> property rights when Wayne writes "the idea of personal property 
> rights starts with you yourself.  All rights start with the idea that 
> you own your body as an individual, that you are not property of the 
> state."
>
> When Locke extends this to finite resources, however, he is on thin 
> ice. He gives the example of water in a community well becoming ones 
> property when one invests ones labor in it by drawing out a bucket of 
> water. But supposing I walked up to the well with a giant sucking 
> machine, took out all the water, and claimed that it was my property 
> because I had drawn it from the well. Clearly, I would get some 
> argument when I tried to sell it back to the other well users, and 
> rightly so.
>
> Bob
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