Category talk:Property

"The advent of the institution of property is arguably the incest taboo. " OK, it's arguable, so I'd like to argue. :) I submit that even in a world with the incest taboo, or even without sexual reproduction, the notion of property would evolve similarly to our world. -- Gonzoron 14:52, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Do you mean "without" actually?

Well, you knock sexual reproduction and/or the incest taboo out of existence and who is to say. Every culture and every historical period known to us has had both. But by analogy, parallel morphology can immerge in species that are unrelated. So you can get to the same or similar ends by different means. But the experiment does make the interesting point that property relations could conceivably be substanially different, entirely absent, or essentially the same with some abberations or other such things that don't reproduce sexually. In other words, its suggests a way, among others, to make alien cultures properly alien.Cure 15:26, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I meant without. I realize it's hard to say what the absence of any particular element would have done to culture. But what I'm getting at is that I think it's a big stretch to say that the concept of Property has anything at all to do with the incest taboo. The idea of "This sharp rock is mine, go get your own" seems to me a much more fundamental idea than any taboo. Heck, my dog understands property, and was spayed before her first heat. I don't think she has any taboo against incest or even any real concept of mating at all. But she knows which toys are hers and doesn't want other dogs touching them. -- Gonzoron 19:43, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

On a completely unrelated note, dogs are awesome. Give your dog a hug today! --ChrisNichols 20:24, 28 April 2010 (UTC)