Template:Self-ownership
The Philosophy of Liberty video is missing a very important element of society which makes much of it invalid.
What is it missing?
The video is focused upon the principle of SELF-OWNERSHIP.
Many such videos ask the question “Have you ever stopped to ask yourself the question who owns you?”
It states you own your life.
But do you own yourself?
Did you create yourself?
Even I you want to deny that God gave you life there is natural evidence that you did not create yourself nor your own life.
You did not spontaneously appear in a vacuum.
As the video states you exist in time, past, present and future.
You have no right to your original means of production. You were not only created but procreated and required a great deal of care and labor before you reached the age of majority.
Even if no one mentions the 10 basic commandments(laws) by natural law alone a man is born in debt and that debt increases to those who sustain and nurture his life with every step and breath he takes.
It tells you that “no other person or group of persons owns your life”.
This is not really true either.
Again, even if you discount God in this equation your parents own you.
Your property is the product of your life and you are the product and property of your parents.
The only one who contests that in law is the State and that is because the state claims a right to you, usually because the parents enlisted the state to help care for you.
When the state did that it took over part of the responsibilities of the parent and then part of the rights to your life.
Some day your parents may choose to manumit your from their custody and control and or they will die At that point you will be released from their first right over your life. But the state as a Golem, corporate entity, may not die. If it ha obtained a right to your life either through your parents or through their parents your life may not be your own.
Lock's statement that "Every man has a property in his own person. This no one has a right to, but himself." can be misleading if we do not understand that debt is also property. Property may be the fruit of your labor but debt may be the fruit of your covetous practices. We may inherit the property and debt of our parents.