On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
My lungs are property. If some one injures them, I have a tort. I don'tô even need legislation.
Well, you are apparently the one doing the damage - who the fuck told you to breathe in the first place?
My land, and that of others, is property, if someone pollutes it, I have a tort. If someone upstream pollutes a river running through my land, I have a tort.
Hell no. You cannot claim to own the water before it enters your property. You can always not let it on your property.
They also own their air above them -- up to maximum missile range. :-).
By which token they have every right to charge you for using the air. That's one way to view taxes.
So, folks, eventually, the very ocean, even intra-solar space itself, will also be property.
Yep. If crypto-libertarianism is allowed to spread. I think people won't. Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university