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My intuition is that if you really universalized this, everything is discarded and the idea of ownership would have to change. How would pragmatically work, I
by scarecrowbob 12y ago
My intuition is that if you really universalized this, everything is discarded and the idea of ownership would have to change.
How would pragmatically work, I don't know (probably terribly), but a maxim in which everyone suddenly stopped owning things beyond personal possessions at the same time took up an overriding ethical system which privileged ecology at least initially seems to be univeralizible.
At least, it seems to "scale" better than "I will declare this land as mine to own and control even when I don't actively use it", which is one of our current maxims.
- jkaunisv1 12y agoI'm currently reading The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin and it's a very interesting contrast between a society of ownership and one of no ownership.