>Nearly every culture that has ever existed has recognized that someone taking something from you by force is crime. Yes, most cultures recognise some notion o

>Nearly every culture that has ever existed has recognized that someone taking something from you by force is crime. Yes, most cultures recognise some notion of property, few would agree with taking the clothes off someone's back. But the exact nature of these property systems is varied, and the idea that all things must necessarily have an owner, and anyone else using them is "taking them by force", is by no means universal. Many cultures have some notion of public property, and indeed many of these public property rights were violated historically in order to establish the modern notion of private ownership.