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That is part of what a government's reason for existence is. That's what taxes are for. To protect people with livelihoods and property from those who would dep
by blueskin_ 13y ago
That is part of what a government's reason for existence is. That's what taxes are for. To protect people with livelihoods and property from those who would deprive them of such. That's what makes us live in a first world society and not the world of Mad Max.
- icebraining 13y agoThat is part of what a government's reason for existence is. I don't disagree, though I'm not so sure that the only possible alternative is Mad Max. That said, historically, setting rules for how property should be used is as much a part of the State's existence as protecting its owners.
- ubernostrum 13y agoThe modern patterns of land ownership in Britain are due, basically, to a Mad Max world of taking what you want and having "rights" only to what you can defend by force against all comers. Perhaps a compromise in which property is protected but the protection comes in exchange for some limitations on how you can use it... isn't actually the end of the world?