Just as explained by Retric ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860308 ), while property rights may not be "n

Just as explained by Retric ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860308 ), while property rights may not be "natural" (define natural in this context), the idea of property does arise naturally in both humans and animals as a direct consequence of scarcity. Scarcity and the lack thereof is fundamental difference between the physical and the digital. A secret can be scarce but the more copies are made the less scarce it is. Encoded information (either written text -language is an encoding- or digital information) can be copied losslessly infinitely for a vanishing marginal cost. Sure, enshrining property rights as law is a human social construction. The goal is to limit the use of force, otherwise everyone has to guard thair own property, gun in hand. But property itself arises naturally.