I always reply, what made it their land? And for that matter, what makes it our land now?
It enrages people, but it is an honest inquiry into the nature of property.
If the answer is force, then that is a sin of which all nations are guilty.
There is no property in durable objects, such as land or houses, when carefully examined in passing from hand to hand, but must, in some period, have been founded on fraud and injustice."
—David Hume, Of The Original Contract
On the law of the Junge, I reckon it is best to take wisdom from the Bible where it states the sin of the Father is not the sin of the son and visa versa.
If the answer is consent, it still does not absolve a people of sin because if one reaches far enough back in time all land was stolen. So...
...no matter what a man does he has the power to cleanse that sin from himself. No one possesses that power, only Jesus.
Besides, in America and Canada too probably, a significant percentage of land came through bartering, treatises or purchases from the Indians or Europeans.
If the answer is labor, then Europeans were the ones who cultivated the land and improved it, it was kept in common by the Indians.
American and Canadian lands were kept in the state of nature that all land was in before even a single man owned it...
...it is the law of nature that I personally believe grants legitimacy to land owners. John Locke was right in his Second Treatise.
If the answer is God will it, that person better have a damn good religion because I will always side with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
I always reply, what made it their land? And for that matter, what makes it our land now?
It enrages people, but it is an honest inquiry into the nature of property.
If the answer is force, then that is a sin of which all nations are guilty.
—David Hume, Of The Original Contract
On the law of the Junge, I reckon it is best to take wisdom from the Bible where it states the sin of the Father is not the sin of the son and visa versa.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Sins-Of-The-Father/
Love and forgiveness > hate and anger.
If the answer is consent, it still does not absolve a people of sin because if one reaches far enough back in time all land was stolen. So...
...no matter what a man does he has the power to cleanse that sin from himself. No one possesses that power, only Jesus.
Besides, in America and Canada too probably, a significant percentage of land came through bartering, treatises or purchases from the Indians or Europeans.
If the answer is labor, then Europeans were the ones who cultivated the land and improved it, it was kept in common by the Indians.
American and Canadian lands were kept in the state of nature that all land was in before even a single man owned it...
...it is the law of nature that I personally believe grants legitimacy to land owners. John Locke was right in his Second Treatise.
If the answer is God will it, that person better have a damn good religion because I will always side with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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