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Where does your ownership of the land originate if not from someone at some point in history using the threat of violence to keep other people off of it? The c
by TheCoelacanth 9y ago
Where does your ownership of the land originate if not from someone at some point in history using the threat of violence to keep other people off of it?
The concept of an unregulated market that includes land ownership is already nonsense because the system of land ownership is inherently non-voluntary. I never opted into the system where people can exclude me from certain parts of the earth; it was imposed on me with the threat of violence.
- jules 9y ago> Where does your ownership of the land originate if not from someone at some point in history using the threat of violence to keep other people off of it? It comes from exactly that, and the system in which that occurred was not a free market. > it was imposed on me with the threat of violence. Absolutely, _the system_ is imposed with the threat of violence. I said that transactions within the system must be voluntary.
- pyrale 9y agoSo you involuntarily participate in a system where you must only make voluntary decisions ?
- jules 9y agoYes, just as I involuntarily participate in the system that I can't punch random people in the face.
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoThat's an awfully convenient choice of what can regulated and what can't be regulated. Regulations can be imposed to regulate what 7.4 billion people can do with a piece of land, but applying them to one additional person is beyond the pale?