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    Mixing one's labor with an unowned good need not transfer... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→An individual's property rights expand to include previously unowned goods when that individual's labor is mixed with those goods.

    Mixing one's labor with an unowned good need not transfer ownership; one may simply lose one's labor, as Nozick's 'tomato juice in the ocean' objection illustrates.

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    • 1.Labor mixed with vast unowned resources (ocean) becomes causally insignificant to the resource's identity and properties.
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    • 2.Ownership requires some meaningful control or excludability; diluted labor in infinite goods provides neither.
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    • 3.Locke's proviso assumes enough remains for others; labor in oceans violates this by making exclusive use impossible.
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    • 1.A laborer's effort creates value regardless of scale; destroying that value seems unjust when no one else benefits.
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    • 2.The tomato juice objection conflates physical dilution with moral claims; labor's value isn't nullified by diffusion.
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    • 3.If mixing labor never transfers ownership in vast contexts, this makes labor-based acquisition claims systematically inapplicable.
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