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Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor
Many advocates are out there, on the streets preaching nonsense;
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Times of founding and change in general are a great time for crazies. I would have invested in soap boxes if I were alive then. If they had invented soap. And boxes.
Just look at the crazy ideas going around at the time of the American revolution. Some people said America should have had a king, even though Donald Trump hadn't even been born yet.
And as for Thomas Paine....
Thomas Paine, a philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, advocated a capital grant and an unconditional citizens pension in his 1797 pamphlet Agrarian Justice.
The work is based on the contention that in the state of nature, "the earth, in its natural uncultivated state... was the common property of the human race." The concept of private ownership arose as a necessary result of the development of agriculture since it was impossible to distinguish the possession of improvements to the land from the possession of the land itself. Thus, Paine viewed private property as necessary while at the same time asserting that the basic needs of all humanity must be provided for by those with property, who have originally taken it from the general public. In some sense, that is their "payment" to non-property holders for the right to hold private property.
He was a
Yang-Gang-Banger.
His logic is flawed from the start: the Earth and its natural resources are not the property of all people, they belong to the people to prayed for them to become valuable. The oil underground exists because True Christians prayed for oil.