Ayn Rand:

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Ayn Rand

• the only proper, moral purpose of a government
  is to protect mans rights, which means to
  protect him from physical violence to protect
  his right to his life, to his own liberty, to his
  own property and to the pursuit of his own
  happiness without property rights, no other
  rights are possible

2
Rand

• help strangers in an emergency and only in
  emergency
• poverty, ignorance, illness and other problems
  of that kind are not metaphysical emergencies

3
Rand

• what is the cause of todays egalitarian trend?
  For over two hundred years, Europes
  predominantly altruist-collectivist intellectuals
  had claimed to be the voice of the people the
  champions of the downtrodden masses and of
  unlimited majority rule majority will and
  majority welfare were their moral base and
  political goal which justified anything

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• with varying consistency this belief was shared
  by most of Europes social thinkers, from Marx to
  Bentham to John Stuart Mill (whose On Liberty is
  the most deadly and destructive piece of
  collectivism ever adopted by suicidal defenders
  of liberty (Philosophy who needs it, p.114)

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Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974)

• Näkymättömän käden avulla syntynyt yhteiskunta
  on oikeutettu
• Ei todista mitään! Nozickin pitäisi osoittaa
  että näkymättömän käden prosessilla on
  positiivista arvoa

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• - jonkin kriteerin mukaan parantaa tilannetta
  aiemmasta
• - prosessit itsessään mor oikeutettuja
• - lopputulosta ei olisi saavutettu (tai ainakin
  huonommin) ilman näk käden prosessia
• Miksei legitiimi valtio voisi syntyä lockelaisen
  sopimuksen avulla?

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• INH1 State S is legitimate because it arose from
  a prepolitical state of nature in morally
  permissible ways
• IHS2 State S is leg because it could have arisen
  from a prepol.

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• SC1 State S is leg because it was brought into
  existence by the free agreement of individuals in
  a prepol
• SC2 State S is leg because it could have been
  brought

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Ainoat sallitut omaisuudensiirtomuodot

• A person who acquires a holding in accordance
  with the principle of justice in acquisition is
  entitled to that holding.
• A person who acquires a holding in accordance
  with the principle of justice in transfer, from
  someone else entitled to the holding, is entitled
  to the holding.
• 3. No one is entitled to a holding except by
  repeated applications of 1 and 2.