Access to land is a natural right. We should be able to have exclusive access to a parcel of land of our own, if others are able to deprive us of land. If we have no land, then we have not been granted our natural rights.
Land is a natural right, because without land we have no opportunity to live freely.
We are owed a plot of land because we have a right to life and without land we do not have the ability to sustain our own life without outside help. Without land we are able live by either selling our labour to buy food, or renting a field to grow crops, but in either case we require the consent of another person (to sell the food or rent the field); we are not able to live independently, as we should if we are granted our natural rights.
Equally and conversely, we do not have the right to prevent someone from access to land, so if we have a great amount of land and others have little, we have denied them their rights which we have no right to do; as in the Lockean Proviso.
Failure to have been granted a sufficient quantity of, or access to, land means that our right to life has been denied.
The use of land is a natural right.
We have a right to life and since it is not possible to sustain life without land, then we must too have a right to land.
Saturday, 30 January 2010
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