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    If private ownership reflects natural sociality rather th... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Civil ownership and civil use as legal categories are consequences of the Fall

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

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    • 1.Humans naturally form exclusive attachments to particular others and their offspring, creating zones of special responsibility distinct from universal duty.
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    • 2.Property law enabling individuals to secure resources for dependents aligns with observed patterns of parental investment across cultures and evolutionary history.
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    • 3.Legal frameworks recognizing ownership incentivize productive stewardship; abandoning them requires compensatory systems, suggesting they reflect rather than distort natural incentives.
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    • 1.Natural attachment to kin doesn't entail unlimited private property; humans also naturally share, cooperate, and redistribute within communities.
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    • 2.Legal property systems exceed biological kinship—protecting ownership across generations and strangers requires artificial enforcement that constitutes moral engineering, not natural tracking.
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    • 3.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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