01-04-2019, 06:57 PM
(01-04-2019, 06:50 PM)G.Irish Wrote:(01-04-2019, 06:26 PM)Apoc Wrote: I hope most can agree that none of us truly own property or goods, if you define ownership as sole control over it.
I feel like I own my house and my guns and my income... but the government actually does and I'm just storing it for them until they decide they want them.
Underneath everything is the law of the jungle. Something is yours until a stronger or craftier adversary comes and takes it (or a disease kills you). Civilization largely subdues the law of the jungle in favor of the law of man, but the jungle never really goes away.
Ironic you'd say "in favor of the law of man" because that's pretty accurate. We're still using the law of the jungle in many gender-based inequalities.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth