Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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Land has always been there, since before we were born and will be still there after our death, so in effect if we pay for the ownership of that land, we are in effect just renting it, because we cannot take it with us when we die. But to the question of paying for it, when it is no ones to own, that ultimately comes down to a greedy warring thug who through force of arms and the atrocity of killing lorded themselves over others that inhabit a piece of land. But we are an aggressive species, we need to believe we own something and are prepared to fight and kill others for that thing. But land to animal kind is all about life, we need land, or access to land to feed ourselves and to conserve what we have, we need to have land that we can count on, so seek to protect that land for ourselves. But as the land is not uniform, one piece of land is better than another piece of land, so the fighting continues, each small victory ensures tenure for a period of time until the next challenger comes around.
There is plenty of uninhabited land in this world, it is just that it is seen as uninhabitable from a historical perspective, who knows what the future holds.
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