Anti-Libertarian Note

In penance for taking a quizzie and scoring moderately high on the Libertarian axis:

Property is a creation of government, or at least at the most primitive and limited level, of artificial and probably unstable social norms. It is not an apriori term, and I'd like to believe the story that "the pursuit of happiness" was a deliberate and substitution for "property" in the Declaration of Independence. Possesions, of course, aren't social constructions - but that's where "stole it fair 'n' square" has real meaning.

The guarantee of "private property" is a mutual pact, and even in a perfectly transparent system, the condition of holding title must be subject to social utility.