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Chads93GT wrote:Sorry, I am simply being realistic, not philosophical.
At one time in these "United States" people had the freedom to buy other humans and do with them as they pleased. The laws on the books upheld that legal right. Are you willing to defend that barbarism simply because it was legal? Would you call one who recognized and spoke of the moral problems with slavery in say, 1790, stupid, simply because immediate positive results were unrealistic?Chads93GT wrote:This isn't the United Socialist States of America. People have the freedom to buy as much land and do with it as they please.
Chads93GT wrote: Its not worth getting arrested to see that one cave that is posted or gated. Is it?
LukeM wrote:I was just trying to provide some examples of all the things that fall in between private property completely controlled by the owner and the government controlling all resources, which you have to admit is a hyperbolic example given what we've been talking about.
Isn't a typical right of way in the US owned by someone else other than the surrounding landowner? So in the case of a utility, they purchase/seize a right of way through private land and then they control it themselves. It's not a case of the original owner still owning the land but having to allow others to use it which is what I was talking about.
Ernie Coffman wrote:We agree on your short story... but not on you "owning" the land. It just doesn't work that way, as Chad wrote in his answer to you.
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