It sure would suck to lose half your property to the earth suddenly saying screw you.

You could lose all your property, without compensation too, if your unlucky enough to have a big enough meteorite crash into it.

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justincormack 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

People lose property to coastal erosion all the time. Here there is a scheme to give some people replacement land further inland I think in some areas.

	▲	mhb 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Impressive. Here they give them money to rebuild in the same spot and hope for the best.

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xattt 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can you not cash in on the meteorite?

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whycome 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Or be native

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__MatrixMan__ 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

The natives lost something, to be sure, but I'm not sure it was property. Property is created when you kick everyone else out. I assume that's the rationale behind "property is theft," it used to be everybody's and now it's yours.

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gtowey 4 days ago | parent [-]

You're correct. They didn't lose property as they had no legal concept of ownership. Instead they lost their homes, their culture, and their lives. How lucky for them!

	▲	__MatrixMan__ 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If they work hard enough, perhaps they can buy some of it back. How civilized.
	▲	laser_eagle 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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ipaddr 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Natives signed treaties which are still respected today.

	▲	yieldcrv 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		The level of respect is per treaty, a blanket statement cant be corroborated as many are not respected or dont have consensus amongst the affected people of being respected

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mc32 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or lose a war, or bet your property or not pay taxes or eminent domain… but I guess nomads never had a immovable property claim.

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immibis 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or Palestinian

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reliabilityguy 4 days ago | parent [-]

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immibis 4 days ago | parent [-]

Not sure what you're talking about here

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mhb 4 days ago | parent [-]

A clue is that history did not start in 1948.

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immibis 3 days ago | parent [-]

Can you say what you mean please?

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mhb 3 days ago | parent [-]

You felt compelled to parade your ignorance by inserting this cheap shot about "Palestinians" into an unrelated discussion. What I mean by ignorance is joining the uninformed masses bleating about "genocide" and "colonialists". Presumably imagining that Jewish people arrived in Palestine de novo at some point in the 19th or 20th century and conquered the native Arab "Palestinians" there.

That's what I mean.

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immibis 3 days ago | parent [-]

You're still beating around the bush. Can you say what you mean?

	▲	mhb 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Since you're intent on not understanding the clear wording of what I mean, why don't you explain what you mean by "Or Palestinian"?

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gosub100 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Can't even have an article about earthquakes without signalling your political tribe.