• AbsentBird@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    It’s not meaningless, it’s about who controls a thing. What makes you think ownership must not have conditions?

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      If you own something, and someone takes it from you, its called theft. If its not theft when they take it from you, then you didn’t own it.

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        2 days ago

        That would mean all taxes are theft.

        You’re welcome to have that perspective, but it doesn’t map well onto any modern legal framework for ownership.