Why would self preservation be a flaw in our dna? We derive our well-being from the land. Literally all of the wealth in the world is derived from the land. It feeds you, it clothes you, it provides all of the minerals and materials necessary for the modern world. Even the little computer in your hand.

Why wouldn’t you fight for your little piece of it? If you don’t have any, then you don’t have the ability to do any of the above for yourself.

You become a kept slave. Someone that works for someone and never owns anything. You are dependent on what that “someone” is willing to provide you.

We have a word for that…

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Think I was getting at how people have the potential to not need to fight like animals for property. Especially since throughout time people don't need much to fight the "other" for anything, like property. There's religion, race, ethnicity, eye color, freckles, etc... people always find a reason to fight. On the one hand it preserves humanity, but on the other it destroys it.

Speaking of, I wonder what the main reasons are for the current wars in Ukraine and Hamas?

Money laundering, mainly.

And I’m not saying that we should fight like animals, I’m just saying that property rights are foundational to individuality. It’s not a mental construct and it’s not negative.

Quite the opposite. The idea that we should own nothing or feel no attachment to the environment that sustains us is the concept that’s foreign and unnatural.