Rex Kerr
May 5, 2024

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I too grieve for Palestinians (and Sudanese, and Haitians, and so on), but land is a complicated thing. You can't build much of a life in a modern society if you're constantly itinerant, if you have no place to call your own. So we do indeed need property rights; and furthermore, since we do things collectively, we need some sort of larger-scale stability of conditions as provided by a nation-state (though the nation-state itself seems probably dispensable).

Unfortunately, this greatly complicates things, as people can have disagreements about who gets which property, and how collective action is organized (by whom, where, etc.).

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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