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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Sheep in Organizations
- Message-ID: <58189@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 19:24:29 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.164654.9755@oracle.us.oracle.com> <725866969snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
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- In article <725866969snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au> gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick) writes:
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- >In article <58022@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor
- >yodaiken) writes:
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- > >Sigh. We already own the land. You want to change the ownership, put up
- > >some money. It's really sickening how many people want to get something
- > >for nothing.
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- >Sorry Victor, but "WE" do not "OWN" anything at all. Neither the State
- >nor the collectivity (despite Rousseau) is a *person* in its own right,
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- Where is it written that only individuals may "own"? In the current
- US legal system, the Federal government "owns" national park lands in
- the name of the general public. If you have some ideological committment
- to a theory of property in which "own" means something else, replace
- "own" with "holds title under current law" if that makes you feel better.
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