Ever hear of the "mine" stage of child development? You know, the bit where the kid's like "mine mine mine".
Territoriality is very natural in mammals, and ownership is an outgrowth of that. That doesn't mean we can't route around our instincts, but they're there.
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Date: 2005-09-14 11:31 pm (UTC)Is it? That's quite an assertion.
Humans are born with an instinct to own?
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Date: 2005-10-13 09:15 pm (UTC)Territoriality is very natural in mammals, and ownership is an outgrowth of that. That doesn't mean we can't route around our instincts, but they're there.