How am I not forthright about my assumptions? I started this all off by simply stating that privately owned resources can be traded to their highest utility, an

How am I not forthright about my assumptions? I started this all off by simply stating that privately owned resources can be traded to their highest utility, and you seem to have a roundabout way of challenging that claim. Empirical evidence would be the most direct way. And while state-enforced property rights have enabled many other technological advancements and objectively moral outcomes, this does not give the state the moral high ground to use force for its own arbitrary purposes. On the micro scale, just because my authority allows my children to claim their own space, clothes, etc. doesn't necessarily mean that authority can always lead to good outcomes in every interaction they have with each other. It's just a means to an end, like the state.