jane
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and just because someone doesn't cry when a cop dies doesn't mean they want to - how did you put it - skip through fields of flowers with dreadlocks coming out their arse.
and i don't understand where the discussion of the right to own eyeliner or 'requesting permission to own a copybook' is supposed to be going, it seems to be based on a cartoon misconception of anarchism rather than what has actually been said:
No but my point, which, fine, was flippant, is that not everyone wants to live inside a utopian dream, not because it might not be nice to have that sort of egalitarian world, but because what people really want is to know how they can make their lives better today and tomorrow, how they're going to feed and clothe themselves adn their families, and yes, there is some concern for the future, but they don't want to be told that there won't be justice in the world for a few more generations. They want small changes as well as big ones.
I never said anyone shoudl be sad if a cop dies, or if anyone dies. It's up to you to decide who to mourn, but my point, which I already made, is that to suggest that a statement of a lack of sympathy cannot be seen as neutral. Why not, then, post a thread everytime some randomer dies and say, "But I don't care, that's nothing to do with me?" I was not trying to get anyone to be sad, but pointing out that it's a bit silly to suggest it was ever a neutral comment.
My other point is that the concept of 'personal possessions' is very slippery indeed. Where do these stop and end? I'm totally serious. I mean, my job deals with objects, and there are huge problems with how archaeologists define, not just objects in the past, but also those in the present, and that no matter how we construct a definition of what an object is, it is instantly undermined by the way people make, use, own and even discard objects in the real, lived world. Seriously. And different communities and societies define them in different ways, so I'm curious as to know how the categories of property/personal possessions are divided up, and how these problems are actually dealt with.