[tomdemaine]

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Could you explain this further and how it differs from me claiming a right to your body?

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FWIW I'm actually very sympathetic to AC, but I think playing the devil's advocate is never a bad thing, so I'll bite:

Self ownership (i.e. the right of people to own their body) in no way entails the possibility of world ownership (i.e. the right of people to own parts of the external world). It is completely consistent for someone to believe in one and not the other, and so to equate them is just wrong.

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But to sustain your body you have to eat. In eating food you are denying it to everyone else on the planet and are taking ownership of it.