Re:Rewilding the Self
by antonvs on Sunday January 12, 2025 @10:29AM
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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
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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.
"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.