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    It is not the case that Cohen argues that laws criminalizing takings without payment are what actually prevent the poor from acting, making the constraint social and interpersonal, not merely natural.

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    • 1.Even without property laws, scarcity of goods and land creates real constraints on what anyone can take; legality is secondary to availability.
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    • 2.Property laws also enable poor people to own things, make contracts, and plan futures; removing them might worsen their position overall.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'social' and 'natural' constraints is unclear—all human action occurs within both natural and social conditions.
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    • 1.Without property laws, poor people could freely access resources for survival; laws create artificial scarcity by enforcing exclusion.
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    • 2.Natural constraints (geography, physics) exist independently of human choice, but legal constraints reflect deliberate social design choices.
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    • 3.If we can change laws, we can remove barriers to poor people's action; natural limits cannot be legislated away so easily.
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