[alexandercrohde]

That's one way to look at the world.

Here's another - the whole world (all the land in the world) was claimed by people just because they were born before me (and had guns). Those people who were born before then arbitrarily hand that land/resources to other people, with really no objective justification outside of tradition.

Of course, we treat these traditions are nonsense when it's convenient -- if we really believed them then we'd give back most of the land in America to native Americans.

[tomohawk]

If you really believe this, do you lock your car? Your house? Do you let people just walk into where you live and eat your food and use your stuff?

Isn't it just arbitrary that you're excluding others from enjoying these things? What right do you have to have exclusive use of anything?

[alexandercrohde]

Yes, it is arbitrary. The idea of "ownership" is just an construct/idea self-aware matter (i.e. humans) happened to come up with because it worked well at that phase in our evolution.