Einherjar86
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The Reality-Oriented Objective Contextual Meanings and Connotations: The philosophy where sacrifice of human values is the good. Sacrifice is a process of reduction; of greater values to lesser values. Altruism or sacrifice always yields a net loss to everyone. If carried out to its finality, altruism would destroy all human values..... and thus destroy all human life. Altruism reflects a malevolence and meanness toward all human beings in denying people the guiltless right to their own lives, property, and happiness. Reflects an envious fear and resentment for the pleasures earned by those capable of living productive and competitive lives.
You assume too much. Why and how are the human values you espouse concrete and fixed in any way, shape or form?
So what? Sure it's a product of somebody's labor, but it begs the question when you declare that, because somebody now "owns" something, it is therefore aggression to mess with their "property." The point is that property rights violations are supposed to be wrong because that initiates force against somebody. We can't answer the question of whether something initiates force against somebody by simply declaring that somebody owns something. That gets things exactly backwards; that is to say, a property rights violation is not an initiation of force because somebody owns something. It's the other way around: a property rights violation is a property rights violation because it's an initiation of force against somebody. But I asked the crucial question here: is a violation of somebody's property right an initiation of force? Not in any straightforward sense, unless the thing the person "owns" is a part of them.
This is true for a lot of people though. The physical objects they own come to represent a metaphysical condition; that is, they act as representations of their time and labor (extensions of the subject). By standing in for this they lose all physical presence. They're no longer things, but become metaphors. This is the way that objects mediate their subjects' identities. People fear losing their possessions the same way they fear being injured or losing a loved one. It's no coincidence that Mark Twain mourned his daughter's death by invoking the analogy of his house burning down: "It will take mind and memory months, and possibly years, to gather together the details and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss. A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through the years of use and pleasant associations."
In the democratization of objects, it's always the thing that's desired most that is absent. Humans have a way of appropriating objects into their own anatomy.