some thoughts on ownership
#UniversalTaxonomy
distinctive areas of ownership and responsibility:
•personal space ( movement, breathing, feeling physically secure, privacy ) -existential, intimate
•personal property ( photos, messages, gifted or created art ) - bespoke, intimate
•personal tools ( shampoo, razors, underwear, socks, washcloths ) - bespoke
•private property ( clothing, cologne, jewelry, furniture, purchased art ) - bespoke
•private tools ( car, kitchen equipment, books, food ) - fungible
•private space ( living areas, car, office )
•stewardship ( pets, livestock, children, land )
Ownership is certainty of access and control; an emergent property of management complexity.
Legal, ethical, and actual ownership must be understood separately.
The purpose of property rights - a legal designation, is to formalize certainty of access.
Property rights include the right to exclude others from access and can only be ethical when necessary.
Property = 'belongs to', whether properties of a word/thing or as legal ownership. Property as a noun is the physically embodied capacity to be owned.
Rights are likewise properties, but in a less physically distinct sense; the right to expect certain behavior or forbearance from others properly belongs to the right-holder :actionable certainty of access, government is the control
To say someone has property rights means that it is proper/right for them to have certainty of access and control.
The idea of private property has no inherent limitations with regard to desert, capture of unnecessary community resources for private gain, need, or any system of legitimacy.
Property tax is in direct opposition to property rights.
A simplified way of looking at it is territory is what you claim and protect. Property is what you claim and others will agree and protect for you, and not challenge you for that territory.