It amazes me how early children develop the concept of ownership. Mihaela (22 months) is grasping the concept right now. She understands the difference between "Mommy's Car" and "Daddy's car." She assigns ownership to everything. She knows what things belong to her and what things belong to her brother (although, interestingly enough, things that are her brother's that she really likes, she assigns ownership to herself).
This, in my opinion, lends a lot of credence to an ownership society being the natural state of the world. The way children behave usually shows us how God intended for the world to work because they behave openly and honestly, without deception or thinking through things.
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