Comment on Farmers are executing wombats because wombats don't respect human legal documents. Laws against this are not enforced. ABC reports on the culture.

Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

“It’s their sacred entitlement to make a living, regardless of the consequences.”

Thats the attitude that needs to be changed. A mentality so self centered its oppressive to think of others will always result in destruction and conflict.

It comes back to the problem of how to give people enough agency to live their lives successfully, without sacrificing the environment and context that success is built upon.

Or, to put another way, how to protect personal property which leads to personal agency, but limiting personal property that leads to oppressive ownership.

We probably have it more right in Australia than many other places, at least legally. No one really owns land, its all vested in ‘the crown’ in the end, (btw thats different to the King), and its actually closer to a reference to god.

Our problem is we aren’t acting how our laws are written, we act as if we have full and sole control on everything in our name. When it reaches the courts it thankfully doesn’t seem to always go that way. But culturally and politically we act in a more American way than our nation’s laws are designed.

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