The Property Game has Changed

Going through Locke we have seen his passion for the idea of property and how it defines just like your life does. He discusses how you have to do something for it to be yours. To put in labor. He talks about the example of a hunter in chapter V, "Thus this law of reason makes the deer that Indian's who hath killed it; it is allowed to be his goods, who hath bestowed his labour upon it, though before it was the common right of everyone. And amongst those who are counted the civilized part of mankin, who have made and multiplied positive laws to determine property, this original law of nature, for the beginning of property, in what was before common, still takes place..." (para. 30). By this reasoning one would have to physically till and cultivate the land he lives on for his property to properly be his.This is something I cannot do. I cant go into a field start chopping down trees and cutting grass for my future home. I will be called a psycho and a criminal. Just something that I cant get out of my head is how Locke would react to this new world. If he would appreciate the property expanse or shame us in our errors.