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prism 02/13/2019 @sskumday Theft is a meaningful concept only insofar as an authority of ownership is recognized and enforced through power, which makes sense within a single society or between members of societies which agree on the terms of ownership and some claim of said ownership. When you're talking about one civilization, nation, or state taking property from another, theft isn't a meaningful concept, for the same reason that laying claim to uninhabited land is not purchasing that land for the price of $0: It's just taking the land, making a claim that this land belongs to a particular member of a particular society and enforcing ownership through power. (edited) That is the kernel of truth to the "Might is Right" way of thinking. There are two different concepts of property: 1. Property as a mutually agreed upon ledger by members of a society, or at the very least a ledger maintained implicitly or explicitly by ...