I asked it a question I wanted to ask the real DDF, and the answer was close!
I wanted to ask "Long ago, in Usenet or in one of your books, you had said that the institution of property predates the human species. What was the evidence for that?"
The third paragraph is close to what I remember him saying, although there was more about small animals defending their territory so hard that even bigger animals would
"respect" the property as not being worth the trouble to take.
I asked it a question I wanted to ask the real DDF, and the answer was close!
I wanted to ask "Long ago, in Usenet or in one of your books, you had said that the institution of property predates the human species. What was the evidence for that?"
https://read.haus/chats/e049bc23-3aa6-464c-9183-ea68d55330a6
The third paragraph is close to what I remember him saying, although there was more about small animals defending their territory so hard that even bigger animals would
"respect" the property as not being worth the trouble to take.