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That's just shifting the burden to society. Instead of you taking ownership of your own housing choices, and the consequences thereof. Everything you mention wo

• dalke 12y ago
  It appears that DanBC has found an agreeable place, with the expectation that certain laws and prohibitions, both cultural and legal, are in place. Should the neighbors decide to start a jackhammer testing facility, and ignore DanBC's requests to stop making such a racket between 11pm and 6 am, I don't think the obligation should be on DanBC to move. I see you structured this as an ownership issue. The issue is that certain things leak outside of what one owns. This includes sound, light, odor, and access to shared space. How are these resolved? Combat, private courts (as, for example, in medieval Iceland), public courts (civil in this case), and various other dispute resolution systems exist. Nearly all of them, including duels, depend on a system of laws. Take the Icelandic Commonwealth as an example of a society with no government, and where everything was privately owned. Even then, there was a set of laws, and the role of the lögsögumaðr was to act as counselor and to recite the laws at the Alþingi so that everyone would know what they are. If there was a serious problem that couldn't be resolved locally, it was handled by the Alþingi, as many of the sagas describe. Also, as DanBC is part of society, your first phrase is odd - it's shifting the burden within society not to society, and shifting it to a dispute resolution system which has been developed to handle precisely these issues. Similarly, I've shifted my water acquisition burden nearly completely to society.