>You made the very wrong assumption that land possession is mostly an individual thing, and second, that the State would be happy to award “common” ownership to communities big and small, and as such that it would allow said communities (in many cases much older than the State itself) to decide who gets to use what land inside of said communities.
I made neither assumption, and both arguments are irrelevant to my point.
Take the current rights of anyone to one or more plots of land they own. As those are today, and also as they change while some are sold and bought etc.
To protect those rights of those onwers (of citizens and businesses and municipalities and so on) a registry or plots and their boundaries is very useful.
>to decide who gets to use what land inside of said communities
That's a totally irrelevant point, one that I didn't bring up.
I never said the state will happily "award “common” ownership to communities big and small, and as such that it would allow said communities (in many cases much older than the State itself) to decide who gets to use what land inside of said communities". In fact, for the purposes of my argument, whether the state will do that doesn't concern me at all.
Just that the state keeping a registry of plots and their boundaries helps keep track of ownership. Not transfer it to communities, to give it to someone else to administer: to keep track.
I made neither assumption, and both arguments are irrelevant to my point.
Take the current rights of anyone to one or more plots of land they own. As those are today, and also as they change while some are sold and bought etc.
To protect those rights of those onwers (of citizens and businesses and municipalities and so on) a registry or plots and their boundaries is very useful.
>to decide who gets to use what land inside of said communities
That's a totally irrelevant point, one that I didn't bring up.
I never said the state will happily "award “common” ownership to communities big and small, and as such that it would allow said communities (in many cases much older than the State itself) to decide who gets to use what land inside of said communities". In fact, for the purposes of my argument, whether the state will do that doesn't concern me at all.
Just that the state keeping a registry of plots and their boundaries helps keep track of ownership. Not transfer it to communities, to give it to someone else to administer: to keep track.