From: Samael (Samael@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Tue Dec 15 1998 - 02:27:31 MST
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From: Dick.Gray@bull.com <Dick.Gray@bull.com>
To: extropians@maxwell.kumo.com <extropians@maxwell.kumo.com>
Date: 14 December 1998 18:29
Subject: Re: Property
>"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.
If everyone has access to something, it 'belongs' to all of them, yes?
Maybe I'm stretching the word belongs a little bit there, but I presume you
can see what I'm trying to say.
samael
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