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%OWNERSHIP OF RIGHTS 770722
A possession-oriented society tends to structure
itself in terms of rights which are owned by individuals
and may be denied to individuals. Rights are perceived as
possessions vested in individuals---which may be taken
away for legitimate cause, or perhaps denied
illegitimately---stolen. Some people may enjoy such
possessions as a matter of privilege---having been given
them by a powerful individual. Possessions given by one
person to another as individual to individual are not
perceived as rights. Rights are privileges given to
individuals by the society because the individuals fulfill
certain qualifications. Those qualifications may include
proper parentage, ownership of land, skin color, cultural
heritage, sex, sexual preference, education, election,
etc. The rights are owned (permanently or temporarily) by
virtue of qualification.
In the American tradition citizens qualify for
rights of privacy, assembly, communication, petition, due
process, representation, etc. Due to the possession-
oriented character of the society many of these universal
rights are viewed as individual possessions to be
protected through initiatives of individuals and voluntary
associations. While the government will initiate actions
against robbers, rapists, murderers, extortionists, etc.;
the government will not as a matter of course initiate
actions against those who deprive citizens of their civil
rights. Individuals must protect their ownership of
rights to free speech, press, due process, etc. Such
rights are not viewed as communal property to be
communally protected. It is an individual's rights which
are violated according to the traditional perception---not
the structure of the community which is violated. Because
of this perception individuals have the responsibility to
protect the structure of the community---governmental
agencies do not have the responsibility to protect the
structure of the community by sustaining the basic rights
which make community possible.
So long as this ownership perspective persists those
entities most concerned with ownership --- the
corporations --- will dominate the structure of the
community, violating the rights which make community
possible when it will profit them to do so.
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