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RE: Property is not a "Western concept," but a natural reality - Thoughts on Christian missionary killed near India by isolated tribe

in #anarchy5 years ago (edited)

Thank you, @minismallholding. Yes, like I say in the vid, there are always gray areas. However, the state is a giant, chaotic, bloodstained gray area, and instead of attempting to base societies on that “divine right” or “majority vote” hocus pocus, the only objective means by which violent conflict can be minimized is to have a universalizable property norm in any given society. There will always be gray areas and violence, as you point out, but it is not necessary to make these gray areas and violence the foundational structure upon which the society is to be built.

Objective realities such as individual self-ownership and scarcity of rivalrous resources works much better.

The feeling is mutual, by the way, and your comment on the Aboriginal people of Australia has got me thinking as well.

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