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Re:Rewilding the Self by 65 on Sunday January 12, 2025 @10:12AM (#42674110)
The problem lies in the idea that humans can own land. Hah. We're so dumb. We cannot "own" land.
Re:Rewilding the Self by antonvs on Sunday January 12, 2025 @10:29AM (#42674236)
Of course we can. You're perhaps thinking of ownership as being something more than a social construction, but that's all it is.

"Own" just means that we agree with other people that we have certain rights over some property - land, or whatever. That ownership is enforced to varying degrees by society. That's it.

Re:Rewilding the Self by brookst on Sunday January 12, 2025 @11:24AM (#42674650)
Yep. The same fallacy would get you “we can’t own a candy bar because its component atoms originated in distant stars billions of years ago and will outlive our solar system”. Sorry, no, that’s my Kit Kat.
Re:Rewilding the Self by cwmoore on Sunday January 12, 2025 @11:44AM (#42674789)
You can have your Kit Kat and eat it too? You must be thinking of Twix.
Re:Rewilding the Self by tomrod on Sunday January 12, 2025 @10:25AM (#42674210)
Sure we can. We made fences, guns, and governments to do exactly that. But it turns out these coordination and defensive devices sort of blow up in our hands. And come a huge hurricane, storm, flood, or fire, nature just laughs are our land surveys and continues unabated.