Re: Physicist Robert Bacher Dies at 99!

From: Hop David (hopspageHATESSPAaMmM_at_tabletoptelephone.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:27:25 -0700

Rand Simberg wrote:

>>>The aboriginal Americans, for the most part, didn't even have a
>>>concept of property rights when it came to land.
>>
>>What's your point?
>
>
> That it's meaningless to say that we *stole* it from them. We
> committed some regrettable crimes against them, including the
> occasional mass murder, but taking their land, which even they didn't
> consider theirs,

Um, reread this subthread. "Stolen" was Oberg's word. He seemed to be
saying that it was OK to take land from the Mexicans because the
Mexicans stole from the Navajos.

In this case "they" (the Mexicans) sure did have a concept of property
rights. They were well aware the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo granted
them such rights.

> isn't one of them, and they were hardly innocent
> themselves.

Most of us have ancestors that have committed crimes. I would guess even
you. So does that make it OK to take your property? 

-- 
Hop David
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