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Theft is a concept that exists within a legal or normative framework. There is no such thing as theft outside of an established framework. If you want to argue
by hackinthebochs 6y ago
Theft is a concept that exists within a legal or normative framework. There is no such thing as theft outside of an established framework. If you want to argue that America unjustly took Native American land, you basically have to start from first principles.
- sophacles 6y agoThis is kind of the same point I was making. I'm not trying to prove that anything was just or not in some grand scheme of things. I'm arguing that "what happens after war" is not some fixed law of nature, but a human decision. Human decisions are not laws of nature, they can be changed. Historical precedent can be a useful tool, but it's not the same as "something immutable we must adhere to".