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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> I've been having a crisis of faith over the past several months and tried to
> bring it up unsuccessfully once before, but this ties into it. To get to the
> point, I'm having trouble justifying ownership. The entire notion of ownership
> actually. This is only unsettling because ownership 'feels' so right.
> Basically, I have demonstrated to myself that owning land is bogus and a rights
> violating construct.
Really? I just thought it was just an extension of man's territorial nature
(maybe no different than dogs pissing on trees to mark territory).
> But I started this thinking that land was just a special class that removed it
> from the normal set of goods. However, everything that we normally call a good
> comes from the land. I can invest my time and energy converting mud to
> functional stoneware crockery. So once I've done that, shouldn't I have some
> extra right to the product? It seems like I should. But what about the
> material that went into it? How are the 'rights' of those who are owed equal
> participation in the land protected when I take part of that land and turn it
> into something that I own?
Yeah, at what point can it be called exploitation? I think there is such
thing as collective "ownership" such as the entitlement of workers to the
profits of a company (not getting into what the company does).
> One 'solution' would be to say that The People have a right to take part of my
> excess wealth. You probably all know how much I like that. And that, in any
> form, means that folks don't actually own (in the sense that they can do what
> they want with it forever) stuff. Many of you might take this for granted
> already. Is that so?
Good luck figuring it out. Ponder this notion too: Do we own our stuff or
does it own us?
Dan
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