Why is Property more Sacrosanct Than Human Activity?

[The Whiskey Priest]

The Supreme Court held that President Truman did not have the constitutional power to take the steel mills during the Korean war. Yet, today, we have people arguing that the president does have the power to wire tap and today even take the live of someone. From the beginning of the country was property more important than human life?

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Property _was_ life. You didn't own something you were nobody and

had to depend on someone else to survive. Hence the reason why slaves and women wanted to be citizens in their own right.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. In other words, property can hold value because you buy & sell it

as opposed to humans. I seem to remember antebellum laws in the South that equated slaves with lost chattel.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Yeah, if you weren't a white male you were a THING. Hence the reason

why so few men cared about dividing up families at the auction block or accepting the highest bid for their daughter on the marriage market. Business must go on and alliances must be made. (I have imagined what it would be like to be pulled away from my family, to see my children handed off to people I can just tell will beat them and worse, and I feel sick to my stomach. Same goes for thinking about what it would have been like to have been 15 years old and waiting for my bridegroom, a warty old man I'd just met that morning at the altar, to consummate the marriage. Horrible. Horrible.)