Company found guilty over New Zealand volcano disaster

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• _cnt0@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My real takeaway from that article is this: Three men own a volcano. They inherited it. Let that sink in for a moment and think about how absurd it is.

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  • antizero99@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How is that absurd? It’s a landmass, people own land including entire islands. Inheriting a mass with a volcano on it doesn’t seem any different from inheriting a farm.

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    • _cnt0@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you really see no qualitative difference between owning some land to live on or to produce food or something other useful, and owning a volcano just because? We can also have the discussion of private land ownership vs grant of use for a specific purpose. Or about the justification for inheritance. It’ll be a slippery slope into capitalism vs socialism. My gut feeling tells me that it wouldn’t be a productive discourse, that we should avoid.

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