Malachai,
Touche, the analogy was crappy. What I was driving at was the fact that they know English must shed doubt on your conclusion that the concept of ownership is innate to the human psyche. It’s was essentially a “nature vs. nurture” issue.
I would also disagree with equating “possession” with “ownership” I got into a huge discussion with filc and Wilderness about this here. It would probably be incredibly boring to a third party (lots of bickering over minutae).