You are a good fellow, Steve, and a fine idealist. You can give us all a true lesson, a masterclass, in basic morality.

But the fact remain that one can OWN land under our laws. It might not in your opinion be right that this should be the case; but such, alas for you, it is. You are rather reminding me of the famous yokel in the old joke, asked the way to somewhere, and replying "Well you can't start from here".

Here, where we happen to be, is, woe·and·alack for bien-pensants of your sort, the only place where you can start.

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