It is a bit of a jog to wonder how one would decide on the ownership of things. How much can one claim as their own and in what situations those things would cease to be as such?
Let’s go for a bit of a stretch and say that a person takes up a flower from the side of the road. The person neither owns the road nor anything that relates to it, but regardless there’d be very few that would dispute them taking up the flower, a living thing, thus likely dealing a deathblow to it that it would not have faced for far longer time.
Now let’s say it doesn’t compare to taking a thing from a living person, since they have abilities to dispute such claims towards things they consider owned by them. Would it then be different if such a person was unable to lay claim on their things? Even if they still lived? Coma that they were unlikely to wake from? In such mental state where understanding of ownership is no longer part of their conscious mind? When would others be in their right to decide on matters in their stead?
How about when they are dead?
One of the greatest exchanges I’ve seen was when someone asked for the amount of time that needed to pass that digging through old tombs and just taking stuff from within ceased to be graverobbing and started being archeology… And an archeologist answered that they found the question deeply disturbing. XD
That all being said, what had been done in this comic’s context was not right, nor any way necessary. It was born from fear and greed and we would be wise to learn from such mistakes.
…
Sadly we rarely are so.
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It is a bit of a jog to wonder how one would decide on the ownership of things. How much can one claim as their own and in what situations those things would cease to be as such?
Let’s go for a bit of a stretch and say that a person takes up a flower from the side of the road. The person neither owns the road nor anything that relates to it, but regardless there’d be very few that would dispute them taking up the flower, a living thing, thus likely dealing a deathblow to it that it would not have faced for far longer time.
Now let’s say it doesn’t compare to taking a thing from a living person, since they have abilities to dispute such claims towards things they consider owned by them. Would it then be different if such a person was unable to lay claim on their things? Even if they still lived? Coma that they were unlikely to wake from? In such mental state where understanding of ownership is no longer part of their conscious mind? When would others be in their right to decide on matters in their stead?
How about when they are dead?
One of the greatest exchanges I’ve seen was when someone asked for the amount of time that needed to pass that digging through old tombs and just taking stuff from within ceased to be graverobbing and started being archeology… And an archeologist answered that they found the question deeply disturbing. XD
That all being said, what had been done in this comic’s context was not right, nor any way necessary. It was born from fear and greed and we would be wise to learn from such mistakes.
…
Sadly we rarely are so.
Yes, I was bored and decided to write some.