Fundamenatal rights are always expressed in the negative, due to the basic principle of liberty.

Each person has liberty, up to the point where they violate another person's rights.

You can swing your arms and kick your legs and run around in circles -- as long as you don't bash into someone else.

That's why it is expressed in the negative.

It's not about you, but rather a prohibition on how not to violate someone else. And they have the same rights and also obligation towards you. That's why rights come with responsibilities towards others. The two are intertwined.

It would be impossible to express every little thing you can do; but relatively easy to express what not to do.

And it's not specifically about property rights, per se. It is about bloodlines.

The 10 Commandments were directed at the Israelites, specifically, and not to anyone else.

The Israelites (who, btw, are not the jews), were to behave in a way that would allow them to prosper.

A man should not have sex with a married woman, because that confuses the bloodlines (no DNA tests in those days).

A man should honor his father and his mother by only marrying "his kind" (God's first law from Genesis 1 was "kind after kind"). Again, this ensures clean bloodlines. Noah was selected for his role specifically because he was "pure in his ancestry."

Don't steal, murder, or bear false witness because that creates animosity within the nation ("nation" has to do with bloodlines and families, not random groups of people stuck together due to land boundries).

The story of the Bible is about one particular bloodline, and the 10 Commandments were for these people, although other people should follow these laws, as well, because they work for any society.

You can trace this bloodline in the Bible: God > Adam > Seth > ... > Noah > Shem (aka, Sem, the "Semites") > ... Eber (the "Hebrews") > ... Abram/Abraham > Isaac > Jacob/Israel > 12 sons of Jacob (aka, the "Israelites") > Judah > ... > Virgin Mary > Jesus (aka, God Himself, in the flesh on Earth).

This was the reason to keep the bloodline pure. The rules were made for these people, and for this purpose.

Fundamenatal rights are always expressed in the negative, due to the basic principle of liberty.

Each person has liberty, up to the point where they violate another person's rights.

You can swing your arms and kick your legs and run around in circles -- as long as you don't bash into someone else.

That's why it is expressed in the negative.

It's not about you, but rather a prohibition on how not to violate someone else. And they have the same rights and also obligation towards you. That's why rights come with responsibilities towards others. The two are intertwined.

It would be impossible to express every little thing you can do; but relatively easy to express what not to do.

And it's not specifically about property rights, per se. It is about bloodlines.

The 10 Commandments were directed at the Israelites, specifically, and not to anyone else.

The Israelites (who, btw, are not the jews), were to behave in a way that would allow them to prosper.

A man should not have sex with a married woman, because that confuses the bloodlines (no DNA tests in those days).

A man should honor is father and his mother by only marrying "his kind" (God's first law from Genesis 1 was "kind after kind"). Again, this ensures clean bloodlines. Noah was selected for his role specifically because he was "pure in his ancestry."

Don't steal, murder, or bear false witness because that creates animosity within the nation ("nation" has to do with bloodlines and families, not random groups of people stuck together due to land boundries).

The story of the Bible is about one particular bloodline, and the 10 Commandments were for these people, although other people should follow these laws, as well, because they work for any society.

You can trace this bloodline in the Bible: God > Adam > Seth > ... > Noah > Shem (aka, Sem, the "Semites") > ... Eber (the "Hebrews") > ... Abram/Abraham > Isaac > Jacob/Israel > 12 sons of Jacob (aka, the "Israelites") > Judah > ... > Virgin Mary > Jesus (aka, God Himself, in the flesh on Earth).

This was the reason to keep the bloodline pure. The rules were made for these people, and for this purpose.

Fundamenatal rights are always expressed in the negative, due to the basic principle of liberty.

Each person has liberty, up to the point where they violate another person's rights.

You can swing your arms and kick your legs and run around in circles -- as long as you don't bash into someone else.

That's why it is expressed in the negative.

It's not about you, but rather a prohibition on how not to violate someone else. And they have the same rights and also obligation towards you. That's why rights come with responsibilities towards others. The two are intertwined.

It would be impossible to express every little thing you can do; but relatively easy to express what not to do.

And it's not specifically about property rights, per se. It is about bloodlines.

The 10 Commandments were directed at the Israelites, specifically, and not to anyone else.

The Israelites (who, btw, are not the jews), were to behave in a way that would allow them to prosper.

A man should not have sex with a married woman, because that confuses the bloodlines (no DNA tests in those days).

A man should honor is father and his mother by only marrying "his kind" (God's first law from Genesis 1 was "kind after kind"). Again, this ensures clean bloodlines. Noah was selected for his role specifically because he was "pure in his ancestry."

Don't steal, murder, or bear false witness because that creates animosity within the nation ("nation" has to do with bloodlines and families, not random groups of people stuck together due to land boundries).

The story of the Bible is about one particular bloodline, and the 10 Commandments were for these people, although other people should follow these laws, as well, because they work for any society.

You can trace this bloodline in the Bible: God > Adam > Seth > ... > Noah > Shem (aka, Sem, the "Semites") > ... Eber (the "Hebrews") > ... Abram/Abraham > Isaac > Jacob/Israel > 12 sons of Jacob (aka, the "Israelites") > Judah > ... > Virgin Mary > Jesus (aka, God Himself, in the flesh on Earth).

This was the reason to keep the bloodline pure, and these rules were made for that purpose.

Fundamenatal rights are always expressed in the negative, due to the basic principle of liberty.

Each person has liberty, up to the point where they violate another person's rights.

You can swing your arms and kick your legs and run around in circles -- as long as you don't bash into someone else.

That's why it is expressed in the negative.

It's not about you, but rather a prohibition on how not to violate someone else. And they have the same rights and also obligation towards you. That's why rights come with responsibilities towards others. The two are intertwined.

It would be impossible to express every little thing you can do; but relatively easy to express what not to do.

And it's not specifically about property rights, per se. It is about bloodlines.

The 10 Commandments were directed at the Israelites, specifically, and not to anyone else.

The Israelites (who, btw, are not the jews), were to behave in a way that would allow them to prosper.

A man should not have sex with a married woman, because that confuses the bloodlines (no DNA tests in those days).

A man should honor is father and his mother by only marrying "his kind" (God's first law from Genesis 1:1 was "kind after kind"). Again, this ensures clean bloodlines. Noah was selected for his role specifically because he was "pure in his ancestry."

Don't steal, murder, or bear false witness because that creates animosity within the nation ("nation" has to do with bloodlines and families, not random groups of people stuck together due to land boundries).

The story of the Bible is about one particular bloodline, and the 10 Commandments were for these people, although other people should follow these laws, as well, because they work for any society.

You can trace this bloodline in the Bible: God > Adam > Seth > ... > Noah > Shem (aka, Sem, the "Semites") > ... Eber (the "Hebrews") > ... Abram/Abraham > Isaac > Jacob/Israel > 12 sons of Jacob (aka, the "Israelites") > Judah > ... > Virgin Mary > Jesus (aka, God Himself, in the flesh on Earth).

This was the reason to keep the bloodline pure, and these rules were made for that purpose.

Fundamenatal rights are always expressed in the negative, due to the basic principle of liberty.

Each person has liberty, up to the point where they violate another person's rights.

You can swing your arms and kick your legs and run around in circles -- as long as you don't bash into someone else.

That's why it is expressed in the negative.

It's not about you, but rather a prohibition on how not to violate someone else. And they have the same rights and also obligation towards you. That's why rights come with responsibilities towards others. The two are intertwined.

It would be impossible to express every little thing you can do; but relatively easy to express what not to do.

And it's not specifically about propert rights, per se. It is about bloodlines.

The 10 Commandments were directed at the Israelites, specifically, and not to anyone else.

The Israelites (who, btw, are not the jews), were to behave in a way that would allow them to prosper.

A man should not have sex with a married woman, because that confuses the bloodlines (no DNA tests in those days).

A man should honor is father and his mother by only marrying "his kind" (God's first law from Genesis 1:1 was "kind after kind"). Again, this ensures clean bloodlines. Noah was selected for his role specifically because he was "pure in his ancestry."

Don't steal, murder, or bear false witness because that creates animosity within the nation ("nation" has to do with bloodlines and families, not random groups of people stuck together due to land boundries).

The story of the Bible is about one particular bloodline, and the 10 Commandments were for these people, although other people should follow these laws, as well, because they work for any society.

You can trace this bloodline in the Bible: God > Adam > Seth > ... > Noah > Shem (aka, Sem, the "Semites") > ... Eber (the "Hebrews") > ... Abram/Abraham > Isaac > Jacob/Israel > 12 sons of Jacob (aka, the "Israelites") > Judah > ... > Virgin Mary > Jesus (aka, God Himself, in the flesh on Earth).

This was the reason to keep the bloodline pure, and these rules were made for that purpose.