(June 23, 2015 at 2:41 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Some ancient cultures had weak to practically no social sense of possession. Several tribes of the American Indians earned terrible reputations as thieves because they took things that they did not consider to be possessed.
If I caught a butterfly in your yard and kept it, did I steal it? If I caught your pet puppy in your yard and took it, did I steal it?
"Objectively" tell me the difference.
Keep your thieving hands off of my butterflies.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.