I just came across an interesting argument in the battle for private property legitimacy (not that this is seriously in dispute, but some philosophers have considered it destructive to human organization):
"property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence." [Raymond, E. from The Cathedral and the Bazaar]
Ironically, in searching for information on the subject, I came across more articles written to teach us how to dissuade domesticated animals from doing it than I did articles to understand why we humans seem to find it so necessary.
Yeah, those pissing animals are nothing like us.
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3.04.2009
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