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    Locke's own proviso requires 'enough and as good' left fo... — Carmelics
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    Locke's own proviso requires 'enough and as good' left for others, a condition demonstrably unmet in any historically actual property regime.

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    • 1.Historical property regimes involved enclosure, colonization, and dispossession that systematically denied others access to comparable resources.
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    • 2.No actual society has ensured remaining land/resources are genuinely equivalent in quality, accessibility, and productive capacity to what was appropriated.
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    • 3.If the proviso is a binding moral condition for legitimate property, its universal violation delegitimizes existing property distributions.
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    • 1.Locke's proviso may require only 'enough and as good' relative to a pre-property baseline, not absolute equality—improvements benefit all through trade.
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    • 2.Property regimes create wealth and development that provide opportunities unavailable in commons; the proviso might be satisfied by these broader gains.
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    • 3.Requiring perfect proviso-satisfaction would make any property system impossible, suggesting the standard should be good-faith effort, not metaphysical perfection.
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