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title: "Timeline photos "The analogy of a home to a nation is more misleading…"
date: 2019-12-08
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships added a new photo.
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# Timeline photos "The analogy of a home to a nation is more misleading…

*December 8, 2019 · Facebook*

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\"The analogy of a home to a nation is more misleading than helpful. Unlike a home, a nation---at least each nation whose citizens are free---is not a private domain; it does not belong to anyone in the way that a house belongs to its owner. Also unlike in a home, living space within a free country is allocated by market transactions rather than by the conscious, nonmarket decisions of the residents of a house. A person who enters a country and purchases a place to live displaces no one in the way that an intruder into a home would displace a resident from his bed and favorite chair. In addition, of course, every intruder into a home likely intends to inflict some harm on the household's residents. In contrast, the vast majority of persons who enter a country intend no harm to anyone.\"\
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[https://fee.org/articles/the-nation-is-not-a-house/](https://fee.org/articles/the-nation-is-not-a-house/){target="_blank"}
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