Ostriakov sounds like a good Italian name. I wonder how this will work as hundreds of sub-Saharan migrants stream across the Med.
Property rights are one of the foundational pillars of civilization, and belief in their value is a particularly conservative position to take. The leftist Zeitgeist moves relentlessly through our institutions, making laws that are different in kind from the ones that have gone before. Small changes like this help to shift the way in which we think of right and wrong and our place as members of a civilization. When we cease to see property rights as inviolable, and we start to believe that the mystical notion of fairness, floating out there in the ether, is a superior good to the rigid enforcement of definable rights, then our civilization is in real peril.
Small, seemingly innocuous cases such as this are how real evil gets done in practice.
Property rights are one of the foundational pillars of civilization, and belief in their value is a particularly conservative position to take. The leftist Zeitgeist moves relentlessly through our institutions, making laws that are different in kind from the ones that have gone before. Small changes like this help to shift the way in which we think of right and wrong and our place as members of a civilization. When we cease to see property rights as inviolable, and we start to believe that the mystical notion of fairness, floating out there in the ether, is a superior good to the rigid enforcement of definable rights, then our civilization is in real peril.
Small, seemingly innocuous cases such as this are how real evil gets done in practice.