Chapter 24 — Property, Paragraph 6.1 (§24.00.06.01)

Throughout practically all of human history the right to property has been acknowledged within states (regardless of how many of their citizens this applied to) to such an extent that states are frequently depicted as effectively protecting property. However, it is important to clarify how and why they do this. States are able to protect property first and foremost because it is through them that both the owner and whatever the attribute of property applies to exist. States have full control over all information processing concerning property (As is the case for any information processing happening on their information platform, see §16.00.02). States can therefore protect property, but it is not necessary the case that they will do so. Protection can be provided but whether it is actually provided and on what terms is a matter for the political system and the government. In other words, it is not the state’s purpose to protect property (states have no specific purpose anyway), rather it is the role of the government, if under the political system applicable at the time this is considered a worthy cause. Therefore, the reason that states in practice appear to protect property is because their political systems and governments ask them to—and the state obliges, being uniquely in the position to do so because property is entirely dependent on it. Consequently, the way in which we have experienced property, and the human right to property, over history varies greatly depending on the political systems and governments in place, not on states or individuals’ property-relevant processing.

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