This world is not ours

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I think the post was actually just a clever redirect of a locked thread.  But if we assume it was a serious question, then the houses vs. ducks thing is probably about the best serious answer given. 

Philosophy is known to come up with ideal solutions for a non-ideal world.  For whatever reason, people don't think alike.  People don't always want to act in the best interest of the community.  Even when they do, they won't agree on what the best interest of the community is.  So Bo wants to drain the pond and build a house, and Mo wants to feed the ducks.  How is our great global natural commune supposed to resolve this?  So we have public land, where a given community agrees to reserve the land for a certain thing and the government enforces that, and we have private land, where the community essentially "agrees to disagree" and each person gets to dictate what happens in their own playbox.  I suppose that is about as detailed as one can take this without getting into economics or politics.  :rolleyes:
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You're just explaining what happens to land instead of what should happen.What should be matters more than what is otherwise there's no point in making progress.