Comment on if you're a landowner, then you defacto own the people on your land because people are categorically defined as existing in a time & place and you literally own the place so you own their existence

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quacky@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

ok so imagine someone is trespassing. If you use your property rights to exclude them from your property, then all the possible timelines of them existing on your property has been deleted. You have thus defined their being-ness. Even the phrase “someone is trespassing” is subject, verb, and adverb which is to say that 1.) a thing 2.) exists 3.) in a particular way. Therefore property rights are necessarily owning the existence of others and determining how they get to be in the world. You have essentially segregated a part of the world where they can no longer exist.

Think about the hypothetical where all of the land in the world is privately owned, assuming you too own a square chuck of land. In this world, your freedom to exist is limited to just your land. You are in essence imprisoned in your gridlocked land much in the same way a fish is trapped in a fishbowl. Now imagine you do not own land. Where would you go? You have nowhere to go. The floor under your feet has been ripped away so to speak. The carpet has been pulled under you. You do not get to exist as you are.

This is to say that land is a fundamental aspect of reality (space) that defines all people and things. i do think a re-evaluation of property rights is warrented considering it underlies all of “stuff” and matter and our very own existence

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