Core value - property

Importance of protecting property

• Promotes respect

• Encourages ‘virtue of thrift’ (being smart with what you own)

• Provides security

• Encourages respect for law/authority/social order

Features of those who own property

• More likely to respect others’ propert

• More aware of importance of safeguarding property from lawlessness

Burglary as an extra unpleasant crime

• Loss of/damage to possessions is also a sense of personal violation

  • Property is an extension of one’s own personality

    • People see themelves in what they own

• Home is personal and intimate

  • Decorated and organised, reflects the owner’s personality

    • Extra nasty to have someone in such a personal area

Consequences of the socialisation of property

• Creation of a soulless and depersonalised society ❤

Link between property, tradition and organic society

• Property and tradition are both passed from generation to generation

• This maintains the order of society (organic society) and keeps people in their place

NR value placed on property

• ‘Property owning democracy’

  • Those who own property are more resistant to incursions on their liberty

Quotes: Locke

“Government has no other end, but the preservation of property”