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)