Friday, July 15, 2016

Species and Property

The human species is only one of many inhabitants of the planet, so, absent a theological premise, a concept of Property that transcends it seems difficult to establish.  In other words, the scope of any concept of human Property is human society.  Now, as has been previously discussed, if there is any Property that is 'Natural', it is the Locomotility of a Member, e. g. the modification of some material via their exertion, i. e. their Labor, and, accordingly, also the product of that modification.  Otherwise, Property is only arbitrary, whether conventionally sanctioned, e. g. legally distributed, or not, e. g. stolen.  Thus, in the case of someone putting up a fence around some land, the fence is their Property, but without some social sanction, nothing within the fence is thereby 'theirs'.

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