NP Thursday May 23, 2024

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,614]

 

https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/doubledate-027 

 

Diane and Lucy do have transformation abilities 

You would never know they weren't real deer in headlights 

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Of course, certain philosophies would have us reject ownership

We should, instead, rent everything we can

INCLUDING SHOES 

[mlooney 3,564]

On 5/23/2024 at 1:24 PM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Of course, certain philosophies would have us reject ownership

We should, instead, rent everything we can

Somebody has to own it.

[ChronosCat 157]

12 minutes ago, mlooney said:

Somebody has to own it.

There are philosophies where nobody truly owns anything.  Of course, renting wouldn't be a thing either in such a philosophy.

[ijuin 590]

“Ownership” merely means that others respect your claim on the thing sufficiently that they won’t attempt to grab it from you. If there is no respect for claims, then anybody can grab anything that they can carry away, subject only to the claimant’s ability to physically prevent it through security or violence. Any attempt on a society level to prevent such violence must necessarily define when a person is allowed to take non-consensual possession away from another, and any highly asymmetrical relationship tends to breed massive resentment towards the people who are permitted to take without being taken from.