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In what sense is ownership of physical things natural human right?

• Exoristos 3y ago
  To take it to the primitive level, the thing in your grasp is in your grasp and not in else's. "Intellectual" property is really not like that at all altho we spend tremendously on legal artifice and violent enforcement to make it so.
• pawelmurias 3y ago
  There are biological instincts to defend your stuff. Like animals will attack you when you try to steal their things.
  • DoughnutHole 3y ago
    Many animals are extremely social - they'll attack you for taking the group's resources, they won't necessarily have any individual resources. At the extreme end you have things like ants with no individuality, but you also have social mammals that are more group-oriented than individual-oriented. If you look at anthropology pre-modern humans were extremely family/tribe oriented. Resources were generally the property of the tribe as a whole. I don't think that the modern understanding of personal property would translate well to someone from such a culture, which makes me sceptical of the idea that personal property is an innate element of human nature.