Joe,
Perhaps, but the belief in taking other people's property and redistributing it
without their consent is an even more egregious attachment...
Edgar
On Dec 11, 2012, at 1:24 PM, Joe wrote:
> Chris,
>
> The question itself speaks volumes.
>
>> Can one's belief in personal ownership be an attachment, a hindrance to the
>> mind's freedom?
>
> Well done! It is certainly on-topic, and is eloquent.
>
> I'm impressed by planning and decision-making that's guided by consideration
> for and appreciation of others' future stewardship. I think of the "Seven
> Generations" planning of actions taken by certain Native American tribal
> councils, the making of decisions with a concern and consideration for how
> planned actions, if executed, might effect even the seventh following
> generation of people and culture after the elders' actions.
>
> Such planning probably could not have taken into account the arrival of
> Europeans in America, and I don't know if the "Seven Generations" principle
> remains in play on Native Reservations to this day.
>
> --Joe
>
> -> Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote:
>>
>> Can one's belief in personal ownership be an attachment, a hindrance to the
>> mind's freedom?
>>
>> It looks to me like it is, but perhaps we shouldn't argue politics and tax
>> policy here?
>>
>> Rather than share my partisan arguments, let me simply state that
>> reasonable people do disagree about these issues. Personally I am grateful
>> to have been born into a society that believes in vaccination public
>> schools voting research moon missions and the like. the society finds it
>> sensible to pay me for tasks which are enjoyable and allow me to learn and
>> to master myself, and that seems fine. I didn't create the society nor
>> more than a bit of its wealth, so I don't feel like much more than a
>> temporary steward of the assets I control.
>>
>> I do know not everyone shares such a perspective, and there's no profit in
>> arguing. I speak to offer the lurkers the data that the idea of capitalism
>> without a fixed idea of a personal self can take many forms.
>>
>> Yours in praeteritio,
>
>
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