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RE: Limits of Ownership

in #philosophy7 years ago (edited)

You post some great material, but this one really touches a nerve with me. It is something I have pondered for much of my life and it always boils down to...

Might makes right and possession is 9/10s of the law.

While I wish for a type of society that voluntarism implies, I have grown to question that it could ever be so. It seems that wherever one can look, regardless of time/place, there will always be those who want power and ownership to gather an army together to make it so. Even in the most beneficial periods where a leader allowed for great freedoms for those governed, that period always ends with that leaders overthrow or when he passed on.

I have protested this idea of ownership in many ways over my life. You mentioned

You have no right to claim ownership over another, and that includes non-human animals.

I remember years ago, an argument I was having with my ex wife. She would often use the argument that her love of horses was proof of what a great person she was. I made her really angry when I pointed out one does not stick a metal bar in another beings mouth with little ropes attached to yank on when forcing the other to submit and turn directions. One does not force another being to ride you on its back as a form of entertainment if one loves that being. That they call it breaking a horse in, because it objects to being used and what is being broken is the horses spirit.

We are approaching a frightening time. It has long since passed the time where those who believe they own all resources should have been stopped. Their disregard for everything they view (including us) has created an environment of poison and evil that will take many years to undo, if it is even possible.

I am unsure there is a workable solution, as they have weakened all who would oppose them through poisons and unnatural laws enforced by an army who think nothing of killing those who would be disobedient.

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there will always be those who want power and ownership to gather an army together to make it so

The only way to oppose those who try to take, it with those who don't let it happen and unite together to protect each other. It takes unity, and true unity comes from moral truth in alignment.

I pointed out one does not stick a metal bar in another beings mouth with little ropes attached to yank on when forcing the other to submit and turn directions. One does not force another being to ride you on its back as a form of entertainment if one loves that being.

Yes, it's the self-delusion of belief. We want to believe whatever the fuck we want, so we do. We want to believe we are oh-so good and moral yet don't understand how we are failing to live up to the values and standards we claim to hold so dear. Looking into the dark mirror to see our dark hearts is hard work...

Breaking a horse is what it's called for a reason. You break their will/consciousness/'spirit'. They have will power, feeling, thinking, all from consciousness, albeit a more limited kind compared to us, but that doesn't give us all these "rights".

The solution is to care for and seek truth, and eventually you get to go deeper into moral truth and want to cast away the wrongs by admitting them :)