[edcastano]

...not to mention murdering Native Americans and taking their land. Surely that was illegal (not to mention immoral) from the Native American point of of view. I agree with your point that the entire US is founded on illegal activity. It's "might makes right" applied to the logical limit.

[lovich]

When you come down to it, everything everyone owns has some basis in violence and might mskes right. The onky exception is if you can show an unbroken line of possession of an asset from your current ownership back through your ancestors to the the first ancestor that was more than an unthinking animal.

Every other piece of ownership ends up with someone using violence or theft to take something from someone else, and then pass it to their descendents