Re:How America Uses Its Land
by distant_hat on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @04:42AM
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Territoriality is coded really deep in evolution. Even animals as simple as the fruit fly get aggressive when another fly takes its space.
They don't value anything other than the space they currently occupy. That's not valuing land so much as valuing immediate space.
There are absolutely no animals in Africa that value any land in South America other than some humans.
Re:How America Uses Its Land
by jaggederest on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @05:03AM
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Well, I value both the Mojave and the Oregon High Desert as unique places in the world. Not everything needs to have a ROI, usefulness, or our permission to be valuable.
huh? do other creatures not inhabit space?
does a creature need to have a concept of value in order to value things?
He’s clearly taking about economic value.
Yes, iff "value" is to have a meaning distinct from other verbs in the opinion of that creature.
Just inhabiting a space does not mean you value it.
Yes, humans are the only creatures we know of with the concept of valuing land.