The Entrapment Objection to Private Roads; Kicking A Ball Into Another’s Garden

Dear M:

I have written about both of those issues. See below.

Best regards,

Walter

From: M
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2019 12:09 PM
To:
Subject: Small questions from A

Dear Prof. Block,

I am looking for an answer to following questions:

1. If you own a room surrounded on every side (top and bottom incl.) by rooms owned by another, who doesn’t want to allow you passage,

  • how many times would you have the right to traverse from and to your room? (At least once to escape, for sure.)
  • does this right dictate that you should take the shortest, or the quickest route?

Kinsella, Stephan. 2007. “The Blockean Proviso.” September 11;

http://archive.mises.org/7127/the-blockean-proviso/http://blog.mises.org/?p=007127

Block’s Proviso: http://blog.mises.org/?p=007127]

Block, Walter E. 2016. “Forestalling, positive obligations and the Lockean and Blockian provisos: Rejoinder to Stephan Kinsella.” Ekonomia Wroclaw Economic Review.http://ekon.sjol.eu/category/22-3-2016-529

Block, Walter E. 2004. “Libertarianism, Positive Obligations and Property Abandonment: Children’s Rights,” International Journal of Social Economics; Vol. 31, No. 3, pp 275-286; http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&containerId=18709http://www.walterblock.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/block-children.pdf; https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/03068290410518256https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/03068290410518256?fullSc=1&journalCode=ijse

2. How many times can you kick a ball into another’s garden, before you lose the right to the property in the ball? If one would never lose this right, wouldn’t it either make the private garden public to the extent that you could always go in to get your ball, or make the garden owner a slave, to the extent that he becomes your ball boy?

Block, Walter E. and William Barnett II. 2008. “Continuums” Journal Etica e Politica / Ethics & Politics, Vol. 1, pp. 151-166 June; http://www2.units.it/~etica/http://www2.units.it/~etica/2008_1/BLOCKBARNETT.pdf

Please do get back to me if either or both does not succeed, in your mind, in answering your very important questions.

Could you possibly name me any good references on the matter?

Sincere thanks for your time, and respectfully yours, M

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1:29 am on April 8, 2019