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    Challenges→If private ownership reflects natural sociality rather than moral corruption, its legal codification tracks nature rather than compensating for sin.

    Attributing property law to 'nature' risks obscuring that all legal systems compensate for coordination problems; the question isn't nature vs. sin, but which institutions best serve human flourishing.

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    Attributing to nature / natural law(as used in legal and ethical philosophy)
    The idea that certain rules or systems (like property ownership) exist because they're built into the natural world, rather than being created by humans for practical reasons.
    Human flourishing(what the capabilities tradition is trying to define)
    Living well and reaching your potential as a person; having the conditions and opportunities to develop your talents and live a meaningful life.
    Institutions(the main subject being discussed)
    Formal or informal systems of rules and organizations (like governments, markets, or legal systems) that structure how people interact and make decisions.
    Property law(as used in legal philosophy)
    The set of legal rules that determine who owns things, what they can do with them, and what happens when ownership is disputed.

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    coordination problems(Acknowledged by Anomaly 2020 as a result of prospective parents' trait-selection choices under liberal eugenics.)
    Situations in which individually rational choices by multiple agents produce collectively harmful or suboptimal social outcomes.

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