From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Dec 09 2001 - 10:34:49 MST
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> Bleah! Bleah! Bleah!
>
> For me, part of the whole point of ditching Earth is the chance to live on
> some piece of territory that is NOT soaked with fifty thousand years worth
> of blood from the people who killed the people who killed the people who
> killed the... you get the idea.
>
> Assuming we don't just divvy up the mass of the Solar System to begin
> with, then I'd expect that any piece of territory in space belongs to
> someone who uses it for something useful - the homesteading principle.
Which are quickly followed by range wars... the asteroid ranchers
fighting against the comet herders.... ;)
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