But did your mother leave "enough and as good" for others? --jks
>
>
>--- Justin Schwartz <jkschw at hotmail.com> wrote: > >
> > Locke's theory of
> > "value" is too underdeveloped to count. He was interested in property
> > entitlements, and argued that (1) I own my body and its labor, and (2) I
> > therefore own what I "mix" my labor with, as long as (a) no one else has
> > mixed their labor with it first, and (b) I leave enough and as good for
> > others. Self-ownership is not a crazy theory, although it is a peculiar
>and
> > rather bourgeois way of thinking about one's relationship to one's self
>and
> > its activities--as a property right. --jks
>
>I've often found that it's possible to gain an afternoon's amusement at the
>expense of Lockeans by claiming that the "mixing" provision of his theory
>of
>property has the implication that all people should actually be considered
>to
>be the property of their mothers.
>
>dd
>
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> -- Bertrand Russell
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