Ownership
Ownership
Sunday, 20 June 2004
You get muddled confusing facts with values. You assume, for example, causes to be facts when, as Hume demonstrates, they are psychological and as such more like values. A cause is not a fact.
The same goes for ownership. That is a value too. It exists more in the minds of people than as something factual. It is little more than the right to process if you are violated.
If ownership were understood only as this sort of value then it need not be extended into belonging and control. Like this ‘I own’ would cease to be.
