RE: What caused the American Civil War?
May 29, 2011 at 2:37 am
(This post was last modified: May 29, 2011 at 2:46 am by Violet.)
Ownership is not a question of legality but of how defensible a claim is. Small kingdom of Tipotya in a hyper-rich valley surrounded by 4 giant powers claims to own the land of the valley. Superpowerful countries around Tipotya test the claim, and find it lacking. The land is now claimed by Yuchaka, who has build walls around the valley and stationed an army there. The other three great powers test this claim, and come to the understanding that it is Yuchaka's land.
People are infact owned by other people, and by governments, and by corporations, and other things more powerful than they whom protect their claim. There are various means of protecting a thing that is owned, and various means of professing that claim, but all ownership is, at the root: that which is defended well enough to not be under continuous attack.
A fringe colony changing hands on a monthly basis is owned by nobody until it is defended to the point it is not worth attacking. A monopoly over a market is owning that market (As none dare challenge the power of the monopoly). The drug-addicted prostitute is held in an employer's power by numerous methods that similarly affect common wage slaves.
People are things, and things can be claimed, and claims can be defended.
Edit: still moody, as you can see. I demonstrated very recently to the entire galaxy that it was mine. Then I made a law (which I, owning the galaxy, could do) that everyone was to serve me from that day forth. The distaste of my peers was evident during the election... but I, owning the galaxy, took the polls by storm. The votes may or may not have been rigged. -Your new Meklar Empress, Aerzia Saerules Arktuos.
People are infact owned by other people, and by governments, and by corporations, and other things more powerful than they whom protect their claim. There are various means of protecting a thing that is owned, and various means of professing that claim, but all ownership is, at the root: that which is defended well enough to not be under continuous attack.
A fringe colony changing hands on a monthly basis is owned by nobody until it is defended to the point it is not worth attacking. A monopoly over a market is owning that market (As none dare challenge the power of the monopoly). The drug-addicted prostitute is held in an employer's power by numerous methods that similarly affect common wage slaves.
People are things, and things can be claimed, and claims can be defended.
Edit: still moody, as you can see. I demonstrated very recently to the entire galaxy that it was mine. Then I made a law (which I, owning the galaxy, could do) that everyone was to serve me from that day forth. The distaste of my peers was evident during the election... but I, owning the galaxy, took the polls by storm. The votes may or may not have been rigged. -Your new Meklar Empress, Aerzia Saerules Arktuos.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
