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I absolutely disagree. That is your opinion and I respect it, but it is only your opinion, no matter how many may agree with you.
Life is a banquet -- and most poor suckers are starving to death -- Auntie Mame
You are born naked and everything else is drag - RuPaul
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Then what was Bi-Partisan Campaign Refom Act? With the passage of a law that violated the First Amendment a little bit of our freedom of speech was stolen.
The state can never straighten the crooked timber of humanity.
I'm a conservative because I question authority.
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Have you never seen the movie, "The Gods Must be Crazy" ? In dramatized fashion of course, it shows what impact the idea of private property can have on a society that lacks it. One of my faves, beechhouse. It also makes a very important point about why "ownership" is necessary in the first place: scarcity. Remember in the film, the object that falls from the sky becomes a source of contention because it is so useful, and there is only one of it.
Steve Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,
to respect and be kind to one another,
so that we may grow with peace in mind.
(Native American prayer)
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"The Gods Must be Crazy" ? One of my faves, beechhouse. It also makes a very important point about why "ownership" is necessary in the first place: scarcity. Remember in the film, the object that falls from the sky becomes a source of contention because it is so useful, and there is only one of it. It also illustrates the direct connection between private property and theft. Since there is only one of it, and it is useful, others covet it as their own private property and steal it from their neighbor. Whether the utility of the scarce object outweighs the harm to society of theft is another question, but it is foolish to deny the direct connection between private property and theft.
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Well I hear that, but I'm afraid there may be a little "false causation" going on there. Of course there can be no theft without private property, just as there can be no adultery without marriage.
Steve Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,
to respect and be kind to one another,
so that we may grow with peace in mind.
(Native American prayer)
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Well I hear that, but I'm afraid there may be a little "false causation" going on there. Of course there can be no theft without private property, just as there can be no adultery without marriage. Not to be picky, but of course there can be theft without private property. One can steal public property, oui?
Life is a banquet -- and most poor suckers are starving to death -- Auntie Mame
You are born naked and everything else is drag - RuPaul
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Carpal Tunnel
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Mais non. You cannot steal what is already yours.
Steve Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,
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(Native American prayer)
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Not to be picky, but of course there can be theft without private property. One can steal public property, oui? Indeed, Phil, indeed.;-) Yours, Issodhos The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
"When all has been said that can be said, and all has been done that can be done, there will be poetry";-) -- Issodhos
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Mais non. You cannot steal what is already yours. Hmmmm. Property and the First Thanksgiving
"When all has been said that can be said, and all has been done that can be done, there will be poetry";-) -- Issodhos
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A person can own nothing and be free as a bird. Not if one does not have ownership of one's person. And what more fundamental right to ownership is there? Yours, Issodhos
"When all has been said that can be said, and all has been done that can be done, there will be poetry";-) -- Issodhos
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