To: ThirdEye who wrote (326917 ) 12/8/2002 10:58:19 PM From: Wildstar Read Replies (2) | Respond to In your original example, you described the land as unowned. In reality, no land is unowned. It's ownership resides in either private hands or public trust. It is owned by either one person or all people--of whatever government entity exists there. So your responses did not actually cover all probabilities. Here's a somewhat more complicated example: Tribe A and Tribe B occupy the north and south respectively of the same country. Tribe A is the majority and in control of the government. They contract with an outside entity to develop a natural resource that is in the south where tribe B lives. The outside entity, under the protection of the army of Tribe A, develops the resource on Tribe B land and pays a fair market value to tribe A for the privilege. But Tribe A gives nothing to Tribe B, except to send the army to quell their protests. Is there fault here? Are natural rights being violated? Which ones and by whom?
