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    It is not the case that An individual's property rights expand to include previously unowned goods when that individual's labor is mixed with those goods.

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    • 1.Mixing one's labor with an unowned good need not transfer ownership; one may simply lose one's labor, as Nozick's 'tomato juice in the ocean' objection illustrates.
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    • 2.No non-circular principle determines why labor-mixing generates property rights over the whole object rather than merely a claim for compensation for expended effort.
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    • 1.Locke's own proviso requires that labor-based appropriation leave 'enough and as good' for others, a condition systematically violated in finite or rival resource contexts.
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    • 2.Intellectual goods are non-rivalrous, meaning their appropriation via IP rights actively diminishes others' ability to use the same ideas, failing the sufficiency proviso on its own terms.
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    • 1.Each individual owns their own labor.
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    • 2.When labor is mixed with objects held in common, the individual's ownership of that labor extends to the object.
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    • 3.Rights to control follow from ownership of what is inseparably joined.
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