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>what rights should people not have?
This is the big question. I lean towards as little restrictions as possible. But there will always be a gray area that makes the question hard to give an answer to. The idea of the NAP is good but with the NAP there will always be cases where you have to use recreational nukes to resolve disputes.
To start you should not be allowed to murder, but then again I am not against executions as punishment for grave offenses. You should not be allowed to steal or damage others property or person (non-lethal stabbing and such).
But even in these simple cases there will always be exceptions and mitigating circumstances. You could say amputating the foot of an comatosed person to save his or her life is damaging but the outcome has a greater good. Cutting someones foreskin before they can consent to it should not be allowed as it is damaging without medical purpose.
I am a strong believer in nation states so I don't think people should have the full freedom of movement. But there is always arguments for the other options too. The only way I think to give full freedom to people (including movement) would also have to be followed up with taking away all the rights (as in governmental services). If there is no benefit moving from one place over
another besides climate I don't think that many people would move around.
But I think it is in the nature of man to form communities and create cultures. This is something we have done from the dawn of time. And in every community (even as small as family units) there will be formed an unique set of principles that gets formed and ratified as time goes on. And there will always be a need for an arbitrator to judge the gray area cases. Also I think the problem with the gray areas is the reason philosophers still exist and haven't come up wit any definitive answers to life yet.
But I think the approach the America was founded on is the only right way to go. Create a document that stipulates what right the government never can take away. The way I see it is that without this protection every nation will slowly take away all rights. How often has new rights been given. Or in other words laws removed and not replaced with something sounding similar?
New laws are made every day because new issues arises. And the solution is always "lets create a law to regulate it". But even with a set of defined inalienable rights there will be gray areas, or gray areas will be manufactured.
Dueling to settle cases is also something I am not totally against if both parties want to do it. The person challenged to a duel will of course be given the right to choose what weapon to use to make it fair.
tl;dr; I think the Cowboys more or less had the perfect system. But given most of my knowledge of cowboy life is from spaghetti westerns a big bucket of skeptical salt is perhaps needed