No good deed
A woman saw a dog in a pen outside without water. She went into the pen and gave the dog water. Now, she’s been charged with trespassing. Hopefully, neglect charges will be filed against the dog’s owners.
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March 15th, 2004 at 4:46 pm
You’re becoming less and less libertarian every day. 🙂 This case is a huge victory for libertarian ideals. She violated this guy’s property rights, pure and simple.
March 15th, 2004 at 5:37 pm
I think tgirsch a point, as far as the trespassing and so forth goes.
I’ll admit that libertarianism doesn’t have satisfying answers to all scenarios. One reason for this is, I believe, because of the use of property rights to resolve most conflicts, and the insistence upon limiting the State’s ability to restrict the use and disposal of property. This creates uncomfortable questions sometimes: if a dog is property, does an owner have the right to treat it in any manner he desires?
March 15th, 2004 at 6:19 pm
Yup. He was right because it was his property. She was right to help an animal. Curse these moral dilemmas.
March 15th, 2004 at 6:46 pm
It’s a tough one. Sometimes what’s right isn’t the same as what’s legal. I’m glad she did what was right.
March 16th, 2004 at 12:05 pm
I know I introduce the slippery slope of the “reasonable person” standard, but I don’t see any moral dilemma here. I think any reasonable person would conclude that the woman was acting in the interests of the dog, and that nothing she did adversely effected the dog owner’s property or property value. So while she did technically trespass, she did so for morally justifiable reasons.
Pure libertarianism doesn’t allow for such things as “morally justifiable reasons.” It’s either trespassing or it’s not. But that doesn’t mean we have to move toward “pure” libertarianism to increase individual property rights.