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Without force everything is voluntary, private property doesn't cease to exist as long as people have honor and abide by their word. It seems any reasonable sys

• jahaja 6y ago
  There is nothing natural nor reasonable about absentee ownership. It has always been upheld by force. By kings, feudal lords etc. For other cultures, like for example native americans, the entire concept was completely foreign.
  • moneytalks 6y ago
    If it really was a totally foreign concept to native Americans, who did the European invaders steal the land from?
    • yellowapple 6y ago
      European invaders stole it from Native Americans as a whole. Just because no specific individual owns it doesn't mean it's free real estate. From a purely anarchistic point of view, European settlers were within their rights to settle upon and use that unowned land. They weren't, however, within their rights to to use that "unowned" land at the expense of other people already using that land, and thus the Native Americans were within their rights to defend against such a deprivation of access. Unfortunately, the Europeans had numbers, guns, and smallpox on their side, and as the Native Americans retreated further West the Europeans continued to spread. And to be clear: the Native Americans were using that land. A reasonably-healthy wilderness ecosystem is crucial for hunting, as any hunter can attest even in the modern-day; kinda hard to hunt bison if there ain't any bison.