Sunday, March 3, 2013

Our moral obligation

We have a moral obligation not to kill people. But we are killing people; when we look only at the seen without considering the unseen.

Poverty kills. So we have a moral obligation to increase wealth. Not spreading it, but creating it. All wealth is created out of thin air by trade. That includes trading your time for wages, but all voluntary trade creates wealth.

Chain of ownership, for the things we trade, all have a first link. That first link is always a claim of unclaimed property. The fact that others are doing the claiming, rather than you, doesn't change that. A claim by possession is historically the strongest claim where a lesser claim would fail. The universe is filled with unclaimed property.

Any legal framework, whether the OST or moon treaty or any other, that stands in the way of claims is morally indefensible because standing in the way of wealth prolongs death by poverty.

People have been claiming land long before any nation existed. They continue to have that right today and should be asserting it. Done in an organized manner by many people, it has the strength of law. The agreement of terms is a legally enforceable contract. It becomes a strong precedent once established.

It is our obligation to support the individual making of claims and to make claims of any unclaimed property ourselves if we have the opportunity. Otherwise, we are, to varying degrees, literally killers. This is a moral obligation.

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