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Re:Why reading Martha C Nussbaum's philosophy is pure pleasure by sprucevoid on Sunday March 09, 2025 @01:42PM (#43311608)
> a set of basic rights that aren't in conflict

Do you have a reply to the arguments in these linked texts that property is inherently coercive? https://mattbruenig.com/2015/10/01/capitalism-is-coercive-an... https://mattbruenig.com/2014/05/07/property-and-conflict/

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Re:Why reading Martha C Nussbaum's philosophy is pure pleasure by pdonis on Sunday March 16, 2025 @08:45PM (#43384048)
Yes: the definition of "coercive" used in those texts is an example of what I described at the end of my post, the inability to imagine any concept of "liberty" that is not "do whatever I feel like"--or in this case, "grab whatever external resource I feel like".
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