So if you spend months preparing a harvest, you'd be cool with someone turning up in the night and taking the crops after you've done all the hard work? After all the land wouldn't being to you.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (18 children)

They took more than was fair, so it wouldn't be fair.

Group ownership of a resource isn't in conflict with controlling the resource, or having laws and practices to determine how it's used.

Kinda like how we all own Yellowstone park, but no one is free to bottle and carry off all the water from old faithful.

[–] FastAndBulbous@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

So do you think it's fair for a group of people to raid a farm and pick what they haven't contributed to growing as long as they take just enough to feed themselves, piggybacking off the work of the farmer? Why should the farmer agree to this?

Edit: rewrote the question to satisfy people who think asking questions about is somehow combative.

[–] unnecessarygoat@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

stealing food so you can survive is always justified

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