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    Challenges→There is a duty of right to act towards others so that external, usable objects can become someone's property.

    If property institutions generate coercive power asymmetries, they affront the very agency they purport to secure for non-owners.

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    • 1.Property rules backed by state enforcement create asymmetric power: owners can exclude non-owners, but non-owners cannot reciprocally exclude owners.
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    • 2.Meaningful agency requires capacity to refuse domination by others' unilateral choices. Property asymmetries allow owners to determine non-owners' material options.
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    • 3.Systems that secure some people's agency only through restricting others' agency are self-undermining; they deny the premise (universal agency) they justify themselves by.
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    • 1.Non-owners gain agency through property institutions: enforceable contracts, theft protection, inheritance rights, and market participation all depend on these systems.
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    • 2.All social institutions create asymmetries; the question is whether they improve overall agency. Property enables coordination that expands non-owners' effective choices.
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    • 3.Reciprocal exclusion rights are neither necessary for agency nor desirable; my non-ownership of your home doesn't diminish my agency compared to a propertyless state.
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