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The problem lies in the idea that humans can own land. Hah. We're so dumb. We cannot "own" land.
by 65 2y ago
The problem lies in the idea that humans can own land. Hah. We're so dumb. We cannot "own" land.
- tomrod 2y agoSure we can. We made fences, guns, and governments to do exactly that. But it turns out these coordination and defensive devices sort of blow up in our hands. And come a huge hurricane, storm, flood, or fire, nature just laughs are our land surveys and continues unabated.
- antonvs 2y agoOf course we can. You're perhaps thinking of ownership as being something more than a social construction, but that's all it is. "Own" just means that we agree with other people that we have certain rights over some property - land, or whatever. That ownership is enforced to varying degrees by society. That's it.
- brookst 2y agoYep. The same fallacy would get you “we can’t own a candy bar because its component atoms originated in distant stars billions of years ago and will outlive our solar system”. Sorry, no, that’s my Kit Kat.
- cwmoore 2y agoYou can have your Kit Kat and eat it too? You must be thinking of Twix.