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Do We Own Ourselves?

• strike-the-root.com by NonEntity

Obviously we possess our bodies. Does this imply that we own them? I would ask you consider this: I am holding a hammer in my hand. I am obviously in possession of the hammer. Does this imply that I own it? What if I had borrowed it from you? I'm in possession, but you are the owner. So possession does not equal ownership, agreed? What then creates ownership? If there is no one but me on a desert island, possession and ownership have no measurable difference. As soon as another entity shows up, the difference between ownership and possession will start to become apparent. If I lay down my hammer, or rather, THE hammer, and the new entity picks it up, what is its ownership situation? Does it still remain in my ownership even though it's in the other's possession? I suggest to you that ownership is not possible outside of understanding. Ownership is a mental construct. Possession is physical and demonstrable, but ownership is mental. Basically, the concept of ownership is something that must be mentally understood by all parties to be effective.


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