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Aarostotleyesterday at 9:40 PM2 repliesview on HN

Your argument isn’t simple, it’s word salad.

You can easily transfer a right of ownership. You can bake a cake and I can buy it from you; once that happens, it is theft for you to take the cake and eat it.

Both of these are expressions of an inalienable right to property.


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__MatrixMan__yesterday at 10:21 PM

Where do you get inalienable from? Whatever rights to property you enjoy are granted by the consensus of the people around you. If you piss them off enough, they'll revoke those rights.

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Marsymarsyesterday at 9:47 PM

You could have strong property rights for physical goods while simultaneously having no intellectual property rights - there's nothing that makes the latter instrinsically follow from the former.

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