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Originally Posted by rlauzon
While current property laws may be "social ideas". The concept of ownership is a basic part of being human. Heck, many animals understand the concept (try to take a bone from a dog and see what I mean).
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First this in fact wrong. I think I mentioned it already even in this thread, if there is one essential thing that anthropology discovered / taught us, is that many """primitive""" societies (or native societies or how you call them politically correct), they don't know of the concept of property at all!
That a child whines if you take him away the toy, does not tell you he knows what property is. That he had property of the toy, or actually you had it first place, but parents lend their property to kids... He knows just he is unhappy when he cant have it near it. However kids are *very* fast in picking up the idea of property, that is what being human is. Humans are so flexible "animals", they can learn every society in the early ages. A baby taken from a village 10.000 years ago, could become a normal industrial citizen, and vice versa.
Second, insisting on the "natural false conclusion" is not the way to go. Dogs might have been trained property because they follow humans for thousands of years. Who knows what a human "natural" is? Do you things "god" "designed" us in a way, so he wanted somethings to be part of property, while others are not?
And what do you think dogs would do if they could write texts? Sorry, but this idea is just so funny :-)