Except I already homesteaded the Gulf years ago by peeing into it while swimming. See y’all in court.
Z.
Yeah, this is how the term “laughed out of court” came about.
Something about how im confusing claims with ownership with something… It got a little hazy because I said some stuff like “you can use someone’s car if you return it atomically the same as when you found it, and you can know for sure that they won’t be using the car”. I later retracted this, realizing that people also homestead the right to peace of mind… all this ad hoc stuff. I think i have a good idea somewhere in there though…
I found the thread. You can’t just say, “I am going to forestall you because you are human and might do something bad.” I guess if there was some tangible threat forestalling could be a response to aggression. It takes a rather contrived hypo, like Hugo Chavez claims he is going to take the mountaintop near Caracas and start shooting missles, therefore we’re going to blockade the perimeter.
Sort of in the same vein, I was thinking about this the other day. Imagine the same “state doesn’t exist all of a sudden” scenario related to roads. I don’t own the highway I drive to work on every day just because I drive over it (just like pissing in the ocean isn’t embordering and homesteading), but I do have an easement right to traverse it. How could one then come to homestead this road? Fixing potholes or replacing signs would work. What fixed up a road, but I then made it legal for people to drive smashed out of their minds? It seems to me like this would interfere with those who have easement rights because, whether the state was effective at the task or not, the road was supposed to be policed for drunk drivers.