I don’t know who here is interested in philosophy, but I am. This is self-evident to us and conservatives in general, but maybe your dumbass leftist friends on Facebook need to hear this.

“A right to life implies a right to the necessary means of life. And that justice which forbids the taking away the life of an innocent man, forbids no less the taking from him the necessary means of life. He has the same right to defend the one as the other; and nature inspires him with the same just resentment of the one injury as of the other.

“The natural right of liberty implies a right to such innocent labour as a man chooses, and to the fruit of that labour. To hinder another man’s innocent labour, or to deprive him of the fruit of it, is an injustice of the same kind, and has the same effect as to put him in fetters or in prison, and is equally a just object of resentment.

“Thus, it appears, that some kind, or some degree, of property must exist wherever men exist, and that right to such property is the necessary consequence of the natural right of men to life and liberty.”