I believe in private property.

Infact, I disbelieve in public property.

The way I see it, everything has to either be privately owned or else it is in a dangerous state of nature- wilderness to be claimed by the productive. Any other formulations of the distribution of property are nonsense- the cause of a cascade of further nonsense..

Like this..

Moves to issue Fisheries Officers with stab-resistant body armour show the half-hearted approach that Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton has toward keeping his employees safe, ACT New Zealand National Security Spokesman Heather Roy said today.

"Poaching operations are becoming increasingly complex, and poachers are more and more willing - and prepared - to use violence when confronted by Fisheries Officers.- Armour Only Half Solution For Fisheries Officers

There's our libertarian parliamentarian, Heather Roy, talking sense while having a jab at an opposition bencher at the same time (it's what polys do. Fine and good.)

Yes, it's an aweful state of affairs. Poachers running wild, employing violence. Fish stocks being abused. Law officers being put at risk such that they need to get about the waterways and bush in combat gear. What needs to be said also, however, is that this entire mess wouldn't exist if we treated our resources differently.

Privatise the fish!

Like health care and education it is premised that fish are some kind of special magical exceptional enchanted good that's quite unlike our other resources and needs to be rationed. Needs to be distributed by the state. Rationed. So they're common property, owned by everybody- which means owned by nobody- so that nobody has a selfish interest in productive and efficient exploitation of the resource. And that is exactly the reason why we have this stupid wild-west situation of law enforcement officers at risk in their vein attempt to make the impossible work.

[I want 200 points for not making a selfish/shellfish pun just then]

- Cross-posted to Silent Running