The native Americans didn't have a concept of land ownership. What gives anyone the right to own land? The land existed before us, and stays here after we die.

The native Americans didn't have a concept of land ownership. What gives anyone the right to own land? The land existed before us, and stays here after we die. That you can own it seems kind of strange, when you think about it. We make up the rules. We want to benefit society, and usually, to some degree, protect individual rights. If we change the rules so that we take your property when you die, then people thereafter get born into a world where they know that they can't work to have some amassed property passed on when they die. If I responded with the same kind of hyperbole you used, I'd just say you can't steal from dead people, and what gives a dead person a right to dictate what happens in the world of the living?