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By: Gavin Chait on 25 October 2007
When you start messing with property rights you are on a straight downhill slide to 'lowest common-denominator wins'. The history of every dictatorship, filled with starving, ill and destitute people, begins when some bright-spark decides that property-rights need "revisiting".
The short answer to property is this: if you want your own farm, buy it. When you say it's ok for you to take it from the person who rightly owns it, you're also saying it's ok for others to take it away from you later on.
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