Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking?

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do you pay property taxes?

  You don’t own it.

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  • Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can debate that in court. But if you steal a bucket of my dirt, the police will come, take it from you, and give it back to me. I’d call that ownership.

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    • philthi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wow, the police where you live must be either pretty good, or pretty bored. If someone stole a bucket of dirt from my garden and I rang the police about it, I genuinely think they’d laugh at me… Honestly so would I.

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      • Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s the emergency dispatcher who picks up when I dial 911, not the police - but yeah, they don’t laugh when you report unlawful intrusion and theft, and neither do the police. So I’d say they’re pretty good in that regard.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Where I’m from, they’d probably confiscate said dirt as evidence, charge the person with trespassing and some sort of misdemeanor property theft, and you’d never see your dirt again, as it was evidence in a crime.

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  • cmhe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am against the concept of individuals or legal entities owning property, it belong to everyone. However, if you take something from the society in order to be allowed to used it exclusively for a while, you ought to give something back, that is what tax is for.

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