| | Spoken like a true concept stealing libertarian intrinsicist. I don't hold property, divorced from mankind, as sacrosanct. Rick, individual rights trump property rights when that property is being used as a refuge for murderers, e.g. Jihadists. Test your floating abstraction, Rick. In WW2, when the allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, were they thieves when they used someone's property in the attempt at fighting the Nazis? How about the Israelis when they invade Palestinian territory to find Jihadists? If you say Yes to both; how would you've fought differently? It seems to me that your kantian duty-bound ethics would result in victory for your enemy.
As for the occupying army. Again you steal concepts, but this time by omission. What you fail to mention is that there needs to be a rule of law in place to secure rights. An occupying army from a law abiding (even semi-law abiding) society is far better for the people of that post-dictatorship, than no rule of law at all. And, the rational people in that culture will not look at the occupiers as aggressors, but as liberators.
Do us Objectivists have to teach Libertarians everything?
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