If resources don’t have a legitimate owner, they’re effectively unowned. This is the case of all dictatorships. Any free country can take those resources and integrate them into their system, provided they recognize and enforce property rights. Otherwise it’s anarchism, a dysfunctional hybrid of old dictatorship and American pragmatic profit, not a secure system of property rights.
(Assigning ownership to nation as such wouldn’t fix the problem. A nation without property rights cannot own anything.)
I’m sure a moron for living in a dictatorship, seeing what kind of compromises perpetuate it (such as the right to self-determination) and trying to break them.
How are we not thugs in this situation? We're taking resources on other's land.
If resources don’t have a legitimate owner, they’re effectively unowned. This is the case of all dictatorships. Any free country can take those resources and integrate them into their system, provided they recognize and enforce property rights. Otherwise it’s anarchism, a dysfunctional hybrid of old dictatorship and American pragmatic profit, not a secure system of property rights.
(Assigning ownership to nation as such wouldn’t fix the problem. A nation without property rights cannot own anything.)
Why should a second country take the resources, instead of making Venezuela free and they keep their own?
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Terra nullius for the 21st century.
Except when it's other thugs who do the confiscation.
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I’m sure a moron for living in a dictatorship, seeing what kind of compromises perpetuate it (such as the right to self-determination) and trying to break them.