[Demidog]

You are only thinking of part of the problem. The other part of the equation is defense. You can never own land. I'm sorry that this is one of those times where we'll never agree because I enjoy arguing with you. You are polite, well spoken and thoughtful. But this is a religious issue.

There is no land ownership. It is an illusion. It's pretend. It's not something you can find in nature.

Thus, if you're going to play a pretend game, you need a government so that you're "rights" to that land can be protected.

The fact that real property is not something found in nature, means that it really isn't a right. It is something that can only be born from an agreement that is made between all of the inhabitants of a territory. It is an invention of the mind.

[annalex]

here is no land ownership. It is an illusion

Yours, you must admit, is a bizarre view. Rights are natural if they exits in absence of any legislation, that has nothing to do with naturalness of the underlying conduct. Besides, even animals have string territorial instincts, so real property rights apply to a naturally occurring behavior. That is probably too long a tangent.

As I noted in #95, all that is needed to implement property rights is a convention on posting land, or its paper equivalent -- a registry of deeds.