This is from The New Yorker, which is surprising.
Summary: Don't scam people!
Commentary:
181. Justice is a great Support of Society, because an Insurance to all Men of their Property: This violated, there ’s no Security, which throws all into Confusion to recover it.
Something I find interesting in these readings is how the "right to property" has basically disappeared from discourse in the last 75 years. It's all over the Enlightenment, and you see it occasionally out to the early 1900s, but it peters out after that. I think it's mostly replaced by "freedom from want", which is related (no one can take the stuff you need to live) but doesn't fully align (no one can take your stuff in general, because stuff=work=you).
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