Should restaurants allow smoking or not? Should schools teach evolution or intelligent design or both? Should insurance companies cover contraception? Should I be able to take off my shoes in your living room?
You might think that that last question doesn't belong with the first three. After all, the first three questions are momentous ones about "public policy." The last one is only about the rules you have for my behavior in your living room—a "private-policy" question. And your answer to that question will depend on how you want to use your property.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2012/Hendersonpropertyrights.html
From my friend and former professor, who has a way of communicating the important principles of liberty without needing complex language.
The whole article is a good read. The issue of property rights - which most of discount except as regards our own property - is a huge element of liberty and prosperity. We ignore this issue, and the advance of government, at our peril.
You might think that that last question doesn't belong with the first three. After all, the first three questions are momentous ones about "public policy." The last one is only about the rules you have for my behavior in your living room—a "private-policy" question. And your answer to that question will depend on how you want to use your property.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2012/Hendersonpropertyrights.html
From my friend and former professor, who has a way of communicating the important principles of liberty without needing complex language.
The whole article is a good read. The issue of property rights - which most of discount except as regards our own property - is a huge element of liberty and prosperity. We ignore this issue, and the advance of government, at our peril.
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