Re: Definition of "rich"?

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:33:52 +0200, peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_Bj=F8rn_Perls=F8?=) wrote:

ruetheday@xxxxxxxxxx <ruetheday@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Only as much land as he can reasonably cover on foot or in a rover.

Completely arbitrary.

Disagree.

That's nice. Perhaps you would like to attempt a logical rebuttal by
demonstrating how it is non-arbitrary. Before doing that, you would
also need to provide a concise definition of the word "reasonable" in
the context you used it above.

Reasonable in the context means whatever would be prysically possible
for a homesteader to posses during his arrival at a new area of land.

How about drawing a line in the dirt and saying "everything on this
side is mine"?

Sure, if you're really on that side of the line.

I'm on the same side of the line as you. So you are now my property.
Give me everything you have and work on my land, for my benefit, for
the rest of your life, or I will put a bullet in your skull.

Gee, it's great to be a non-aggressive libertarian respecting others'
property rights!

Or declaring "everything as far as the eye can see is mine"?

What you can see is not what you're in physical contact with.

A human being can only be in physical contact with a layer one
molecule thick. Is that all the property you are claiming?

Thought not.

Eg. I do not own the earths core, though I'm placed on top of it,
because I don't have access to it. But if i had machinery to dig all the
way to the center of the earth, there would be grounds for me to claim
it as my own.

You are now attempting to claim "use" as the basis for ownership. If I
fence off 10 acres and leave 2 of the acres to lie fallow, do I give up
ownership of those two acres?

No.

So all I have to do to make a whole continent my private property is
build a fence between two spots on the shore, and everything inland of
the fence is mine? Cool!

What if it were 10,000 acres with 2,000
lying fallow?

Still no. Ownership means you can do whatever you damn well please with
your property.

But how did you come to own that "property"? Aye, there's the rub....

Any response you can come up with will be arbitrary.

No.

ROTFL!! Good example.

-- Roy L
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