Re: Freedom
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How about something I steal and then give to my kids... is that their property?
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No. Let's say person X steals Item A from person Y, and gives/sells it to person Z. Depending on the ease and efficiecy, I can see two options (a) person X reimburses person Y or (b) person Z loses item A and it's given back to person Y.
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Can you honestly not conceive of a situation in which two people have mutually exclusive desires?
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Sure, but I don't see a situation where these mutually exclusive desires isn't solved by property rights and the defintion of freedom I gave.
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Say you want to grow plants but I have a tree that blocks out the sunlight.
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Well I'd see your tree as violating my property and my freedom to grow plants on my own property. You don't have a right to trees that hinder my property.
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Or perhaps there is a shortage of some natural resource that we both need to complete some project, and one of us will have to go without.
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It's up to whoever owns the natural resource or the rights to them.
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