# U.S. Civil War question

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**Created:** [March 24, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-civil-war-question/684477 "2014-03-24T20:44:02Z")\
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> [@Trinopus](#):
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> And then, without any irony at all, he’ll redefine individual liberty as deriving from property rights.
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> It’s all logically self-consistent…so long as we accept new definitions of words like “rights” “liberty” “individual” and “property.”

Like this:

> [@The morality of coercion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-morality-of-coercion/684730/84):
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> You own yourself. Violence against the person is violence against property. If you deny self-ownership, then that’s one thing. It’s another thing to neither understand, nor attempt to correct your ignorance of libertarian philosophy and keep spouting the same nonsense in every thread in which libertarianism is discussed.

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