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Public is different (or should be) from State-owned. A land is not public anymore if the State owns it. Even though the State claims to be a "public" instituti
by fiatjaf 10y ago
Public is different (or should be) from State-owned.
A land is not public anymore if the State owns it. Even though the State claims to be a "public" institution, owned by everyone, it is not, it is a separate organization that works with certain bizarre democratic rules, but still a separate organization, much like a "public" company.
- im2nguyen 10y agoThen what's your definition of "public"?
- fiatjaf 10y agoLand not owned by anyone.
- Qwertious 10y agoLand not owned by anyone is land that can be claimed by anyone. Which means that anyone can build a hut there and then legally claim the land as their own private property. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius
- fiatjaf 10y agoMaybe in your crazy legal system.
- s73ver 10y agoThen what's to stop me from plopping an oil well on it?
- jpttsn 10y agoLet us know if you find it.
- ajmurmann 10y agoWhat do you suggest how we organize ourselves as the people other than through a government?
- fiatjaf 10y agoHow do you organize your family "as the family"? How do you organize your company "as the company"? How do we organize ourselves in this website "as the HN commenters"? When you say "as the people" it seems to imply that "we" ought to have some general agreement between all residents of this arbitrary territory limits known as the US.
- unethical_ban 10y ago>When you say "as the people" it seems to imply that "we" ought to have some general agreement between all residents of this arbitrary territory limits known as the US. Yes, we should. It's odd in this day that I can't tell if you're a radical liberal NWO kind of person, or a college libertarian feeling out the philosophy of border ethics.
- jpttsn 10y agoHorseshoe theory
- mason240 10y agoThat sounds like a great arrangement, as long as I get to be be patriarch, the boss, or the moderator who has dictatorial authority over who stays and who goes, and what the rules are. Sound good?