1y ago

The Three Little Pigs

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/553

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All property is gained and maintained through violence?
Does this mean any property, or just land ownership?
Is there a value threshold below which it becomes immoral to take someone's property from them?
I see this position bandied about sometimes, and I'm always curious what people actually think it means.
- It's just edgelords trying to justify their misanthropic views.
- Any private property, usually. Personal property is often exempt but there are different conceptions of where the line is. The most compelling to me is the concept of usufruct, wherein ownership is conferred by use. So anything you are personally using would belong to you and could be kept until you were done with it. But you could not impose a property claim on anything you are not using, because to do so would be to unjustly deny its use by someone else. Land is certainly a common example, but buildings, goods, anything could be viewed through this lens.
- This isn't a philosophical thing. All property is maintained via coercion and the threat of violence.
  
  So the blanket my grandmother knitted me when I was a baby? Am I justifying my ownership of that property via coercion and the threat of violence?
- Notice how the pigs didn't use violence and now the Wolves have their property.
  
  Me: I'm questioning the premise of this comic. I think it's flawed.
  You: Oh yeah? Did you see how it worked out for the characters in the comic? Did ya think about that?
Remember kids, just because the world are build that way back then, doesn't mean you will want it to be that way right now.
- It is that way right now. Quit paying your rent or property taxes and see how long it takes for men with guns to show up to convince you to go elsewhere.
  
  Maybe you did beat the previous property owner to death and gain control your current home, but i didn't gain control of a property via violence. 🤷
Ok but anarchist wolf is kind of a daddy
- Horny jail
  
  Aren't you going to at least bonk me first, officer?
This comic brought to you by the current situation in Haiti.
- And the current situation in Canada
No wonder y'all need a place to call for violence under this bullshit 🤣
The last panel should have been the pig police shooting the wolf.
- Isn't "pig police" redundant?
  
  Sure it works as a double entendre.
Property is metaphysics. Owning is being in control. Control is influenced by belief.
That's a lot of words for "might makes right".
Just as i remembered.

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