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Old 09-29-2003, 11:49 PM   #20
Radar
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Radar, are you taking the opposite line now that you did in your original post?
No, I'm not. But one does have the right to breathe. And nobody owns the air we breathe. I didn't say "everybody owns the air we breathe" I said NOBODY owns it. People do own air though and airspace. If you think you can use any air you want, please get in a private plane and fly over the whitehouse, the pentagon, China, or the taj majal.


There are no "commons". Other than the idiots who think socialism is a good idea, the vast majority of the world knows that PRIVATE ownership represents freedom while "common ownership" represents oppression, always has and always will.

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Plus, that no one has the right to take more than their share (in the form of pollution) because by breathing in the pollution that would deny someone their equal access rights to air in it's unaltered state?
You aren't entitled to a "share" of air. You take what you can breathe and that's it. And for the record pollution isn't taking someone's right to "air in it's unaltered state". It is trespassing, just like when you walk onto someone else's land because you think it belongs to everyone. Except in the case of land you get shot rather than fined.
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