Why does the UK have royalty?

[Yerda]

should we apply that to everyone who owns more than one property or land?. i mean should we confiscate all hereditary land and property from everyone and sell it and give the money to the government to be used for something useful?

Yep.

Should everyone only be allowed one home ( which should be enough for anyone) and use the others for the homeless maybe?

Eh, aye.

 

[kai]

Yep.

Eh, aye.

well lets hope no one leaves you anything in their will.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

should we apply that to everyone who owns more than one property or land?. i mean should we confiscate all hereditary land and property from everyone and sell it and give the money to the government to be used for something useful?

Should everyone only be allowed one home ( which should be enough for anyone) and use the others for the homeless maybe?

Does the property belong to the monarchy or the government in the first place? I mean, the Prime Minister doesn't get to bequeath 10 Downing Street to his kids; it belongs to the country.

I think it's important to make a distinction between the monarch - i.e. the individual person who receives a salary and holds his or her own assets - from the monarchy -i.e. the office, in which the individual merely acts as steward for assets on behalf of the country.

And in cases of outright theft, yes, I think the Crown should be forced to return them to their rightful owners (or their heirs) when they can be identified.

 

[Yerda]

And in cases of outright theft, yes, I think the Crown should be forced to return them to their rightful owners (or their heirs) when they can be identified.

How about returning the lands that they conquered (i.e. murdered the people living there) to the populations that live their and draw their identity from them?

That's if they haven't sold them on yet.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

How about returning the lands that they conquered (i.e. murdered the people living there) to the populations that live their and draw their identity from them?

That's if they haven't sold them on yet.

Most nations have war and conquest in their past, but I was thinking more of things like the sacking of the monasteries. That wasn't any act of war; that was just blatant theft.

 

[Yerda]

Most nations have war and conquest in their past, but I was thinking more of things like the sacking of the monasteries. That wasn't any act of war; that was just blatant theft.

I see. It all looks like blatant theft to me.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I see. It all looks like blatant theft to me.

No more wrongful death than war in general, for the most part.

However, there are exceptions... especially when we're talking about actions that were flat-out illegal under the law of the time. The Glencoe Massacre, for instance.

I wonder if I'm due any money from the estate of William & Mary for the wrongful deaths of some of my ancestors in that.