Dwelling and Property

Dwelling in Heidegger's sense: Is where you pernoctate, live, function, think. Your body is the house of the universe. The only universe you will ever know because you have created it and constructed bit by bit with your life experiences, remembrances, traumatic events, frustrations and limitations. The silver cage of morality. The platinum door of ethics. The leash of desire. The whip of achievement. The mask of success and social status.

Your body is your property; something that you have the natural right to defend, to care for, to nurture and share at will with other bodies. Everything man made that you have gathered, hunt, built or made is an extension of your body: your property. This property you also have the duty and natural inclination to defend, care and share, or ex-change at will. That one who tries to take it from you by force is violating your integrity in all its manifestations, material and spiritual.

The right to hold onto your property: your body and its extensions, is inalienable and sovereign. It is the base of respect for your individuality, your uniqueness in the world. It is also the base of respect among human beings and what they share with other creatures since they also have rights. It is the base of society, harmony, collaboration, coordinated action, collective living and civil evolution.

Attempts to eliminate your rights to the place you dwell destroys humanity and society. It destroys you. That's the reason individual rights are so important.