I knew this was coming, boxed into a corner Oyate comes out fighting: private property no existe.
Found ZeroBP is polluting the air above their oil spill. Our law suggests that it's their air and the EPA backs them up. Along with military force. Their air, their air space, they bought it, there's contracts to prove it.
You may be against property rights, but at least your sense of pownership is powerful-strong.
If I homestead the air by mixing my labor with it, it's mine! And if you try to breathe my air there will be hell to pay! What's that you say, there is no more air to homestead? No problem, you can just rent it from the air owners. You don't have anything they want? Well you can just work for an air owner in exchange for some air rental units called "money" and if you don't like the way they treat their "employees" you can just go work for another air owner, or perhaps some charitable organization or church will take pity on you and give you some air for free.
I spit my drink on my monitor this was so funny....."I am told the fish have an attorney. He went to Fish Law School. I am further informed their ambassadors have requested a very large aquarium in the Halls Of Justice, therefrom which to make their case. The fish have a case to present but by all metrics, they have no standing. Fish cannot stand."
Very good article
How many times do I have to ask:
WHO OWNS YOU?
It's a point I've been wrestling with for years. Consitutional law and logic was not designed for a limited biosphere. The traditional libertarian response (if the pollute your river, you can sue them) does nothing to remedy the present situation. Our legal system, ostensibly designed to protect us does more to protect the corporations that pollute.
Since this represents a fundamental retooling of our entire epistomology and certainly implies constitutional amendment, its a trepidacious topic for all.
Oyate, I'm curious, how do you suggest we solve this problem? What ideology are you suggesting could eliminate disasters like this?
"Consitutional law and logic was not designed for a limited biosphere." Possibly, if you can demonstrate that, but it certainly wasn't designed for an infinite one. I think you sidestep the issue. Mind you, sidestepping has its uses. Mohammed Ali employed it to kick George Foreman's ass. But let's not call it sidestepping. Let's call it a flanking maneuver instead. In which case I'm nervously waiting for the surprise enfilade, because I don't quite get where you're at on this issue.