Please Be Brave Enough To Respond To This Poll

[white_wolf]

37. We are going to firmly disagree, but that's fine.

I made my post hoping to spark conversations like this.

"We recognize immediately when an injustice is done when the state takes someone's private property away via eminent domain for some purpose that isn't really a pressing public need."

We don't immediately recognized at least not naturally. Our society tells us this is an injustice so the majority think it is. However, economic rights such as private property, capitalism, etc. are not universally recognized.

We, of course, have the Marxist and other socialist critiques of those, but they aren't the only ones. John Rawls, who is widely considered the most important political philosopher of the 20th century, did not count economic rights such as private property to be among his fundamental rights of people. In fact, in Justice as Fairness Rawls says that both modern capitalist societies, a pure libertarian free market and a well-fare state violate the principle of justice as fairness.