Re:In London 'Guardians' live in empty office buildings
by icebraining on Thursday January 16, 2014 @08:22AM
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Sure, as long as the government isn't in the business of protecting it either.
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Re:In London 'Guardians' live in empty office buildings
by blueskin_ on Thursday January 16, 2014 @08:43AM
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That is part of what a government's reason for existence is. That's what taxes are for. To protect people with livelihoods and property from those who would deprive them of such. That's what makes us live in a first world society and not the world of Mad Max.
Re:In London 'Guardians' live in empty office buildings
by ubernostrum on Thursday January 16, 2014 @10:32AM
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The modern patterns of land ownership in Britain are due, basically, to a Mad Max world of taking what you want and having "rights" only to what you can defend by force against all comers.
Perhaps a compromise in which property is protected but the protection comes in exchange for some limitations on how you can use it... isn't actually the end of the world?
Re:In London 'Guardians' live in empty office buildings
by icebraining on Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:51AM
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That is part of what a government's reason for existence is.
I don't disagree, though I'm not so sure that the only possible alternative is Mad Max.
That said, historically, setting rules for how property should be used is as much a part of the State's existence as protecting its owners.