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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 5222228" data-attributes="member: 75065">Why would squatters even exist if everyone had houses? Which is immoral?: -someone moving into your house who does not have a house, while you are at work. -having a house while many others do/can not have the same-perpetuating a system whose design does not include everybody within the system having a house From where I am standing the line is fine. I'm not sure I can address your references to religion and law. I was of an understanding that such discussion is frowned upon here at Enworld. I will say that assuming religion as an institution to be moral, or a solid reference point to what acts are or aren't moral, is an error in my opinion. One needs to go no further than watch the Tudors to see how even the slightest difference in theological opinion can lead to the most terrible and immoral acts.  I don't base what I believe to be moral on what the law tells me is right or wrong, nor any other institution. My parents taught me what was right and wrong. I know in my stomach when something is right or wrong. I wouldn't move into your house when you were at work, not because it is illegal, but because I know in my gut that it would be the wrong to do so. I'd prefer to sleep under a bridge. That does not pardon the fact that the current system of debt exchange (money) that runs the world currently is the inherent cause of the vast majority of crimes and injustice perpetrated on a daily basis. Taxi driver goes loopy in England, kills his brother and drives from town to town killing people from his taxi with a rifle. Crime: Mass Murder. Why: Because his twin brother was given the larger part of the family inheritance. You don't have to scratch very deep beneath the surface of most crimes in order to find money, or having/not having somewhere involved. A society based on money exchange is not the only 'sane' model. It is the model we were born into. I think we take for granted that things have to be this way. And therein lies the heart of the problem. But as Kamakaze Midget says, this seems beyond the scope of an Enworld discussion.</blockquote>

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