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This is such a tired claim. Every civilization ever has been built under the aegis of, if no one else, each other. Of course you own it. The question is what "
by GavinMcG 10y ago
This is such a tired claim. Every civilization ever has been built under the aegis of, if no one else, each other.
Of course you own it. The question is what "ownership" means. Ownership of a property is best defined by delineating the specific rights that you can exercise with respect to it. You may bar people from entering it. You might not be able to bar the government from entering it or making certain uses of it. There's a good chance you can't keep people from being underneath your house and extracting valuable minerals, if they're far enough down. Your rights don't extend very far above the earth.
But you knew all that when you made the purchase.
- markdown 10y ago> There's a good chance you can't keep people from being underneath your house and extracting valuable minerals 6ft in my (Commonwealth) country. Have always found it cool that ordinary Americans operate their own oil wells on their (sometimes small) properties.
- awqrre 10y ago> But you knew all that when you made the purchase. and you didn't have any other options.
- GavinMcG 10y agoThere's this underlying assumption that people seem to have that they have an absolute right to have absolute control over some piece of land. I'm really confused where that comes from. Was it that way in the past? I suppose, in various places and eras. But far more common was that you had enough power to deter the powerful around you, and you were for all intents and purposes a state. I can understand wanting to be a state, but you don't have a right to be one.