From: Dick.Gray@bull.com
Date: Mon Dec 14 1998 - 10:07:05 MST
"Samael" <Samael@dial.pipex.com> has a problem with semantics:
>An object starts off as unowned. Everyone could use it. Then somneone
>comes along and claims it. Now only they can use it. How is this not
>theft?
It can't be theft because the idea of theft presupposes the idea of
property: specifically, it is the wrongful taking of someone else's
property. Where there's no property, there can't be theft.
You may not like property rights, but equating property with theft is a
nonsensical contradiction.
Dick
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