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Re: Ownership [Re: blessed]
    #18825649 - 09/10/13 10:15 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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blessed said:

Repertoire89,

While this situation may not happen often, the principle is that, there is something that has value to you (something you own), and if you lost it, you would try and get it back.
Even if you say that once lost, it's gone.

It's our (humans) view that we do own things, and that even if we lose something, we don't automatically lose it's (socially accepted) ownership. Maybe losing something of small value, you wouldn't care to much.  But, i believe if you lost something super valuable (backed by what you said earlier) "the social constructs which define ownership exist for our convenience", that you would still claim ownership on what you lost.  Even if as i understand you meaning, that once lost, it not ours anymore. It may not be truly yours anymore, but something tells me you'll fight to get it back. meaning you'd still, in some way shape or form, believe it's still yours.
(even if it's in someones else hands now).




Well I would certainly aim to get it back, but that has nothing to do with morality and everything to do with greed. Almost everyone I've met likes to think that they own other people, their children, their spouses, etc. It doesn't really matter if one 'feels' that they have ownership of a lump of matter.

Generally speaking I would rather follow the rules of society, but a million dollars is another story. Regardless if the money was mine or not if I had the option to take it by force, I would almost certainly do so.


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