I am sickened by the theme that is emerging in this and many other articles of late.
“It’s only property”
Never mind the blood, sweat and tears that people put into their homes and businesses and the fact that the ability to enjoy “just property” has helped us reach the standard of living we enjoy.
This is a subtle brainwashing via media, the casual dismissal of a person’s property as trivial and that its destruction should in some twisted way be seen as a noble sacrifice for some nebulous cause.
This casual notion of property utterly dismisses the true definition of property, expounded on by Bastiat, and other undoubtedly as well, is that your property is one or more resources that you worked on to make your own. In other words, it isn’t you property just because your own two feet are planted on it; it is your property because you either worked on it to make it your property, or you bought it from somebody else who might have either originally worked on it to make it his property or bought it from a previous owner.
The more casual notion of property is simply a kind of village communism.
Thank you for getting it.
L