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{{DES | des = Libertarians routinely assume modern property is natural, is absolute, is costless, should extend over all, and solves all problems. None of that is true.}}
 
Libertarians routinely assume modern property is natural, is absolute, is costless, should extend over all, and solves all problems. None of that is true.
 
Libertarians routinely assume modern property is natural, is absolute, is costless, should extend over all, and solves all problems. None of that is true.
  
Modern, liberal property is a human creation: it is not natural.  Simpler forms of property are primordial, probably dating to combat over precambrian mates, food sources, and nest sites.
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Modern, liberal property (the right) is a human creation: it is not natural.  Simpler forms of "property" are primordial, mere temporary holdings (liberties), probably dating to combat over precambrian mates, food sources, and nest sites.  The [[Hohfeld’s_typology_of_rights|Hohfeldian]] point about liberties is how weak they are: anybody can interfere in them any way they want.  If you have the liberty to hold something, anybody can take it away if they want.  That's not a property right.  When libertarians babble about animals and children understanding property, they are actually describing holdings: those same animals and children understand yielding the holding to the bigger animal or kid.
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Libertarian philosophers pretend that modern property predates government, when government creates modern property rights.  Nozick does this, for example.
  
 
How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.  
 
How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.  
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Bodies are NEVER property (let alone absolute property) in any culture except in slavery.
 
Bodies are NEVER property (let alone absolute property) in any culture except in slavery.
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You can’t get to libertarian absolute property through any prevailing normative theories in philosophy. The institution of property is inconsistent with voluntarism, negative liberty, the non-aggression principle, desert, and utility (it demands transfers.)

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