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    Private property is justified — Carmelics
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    Private property is justified

    Rights & LibertySocial Contract
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    • 1.Private property provides security to those who hold it
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    • 2.Private property leads to superior stewardship of resources compared to common ownership
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    • 1.Private property requires coercive enforcement mechanisms that themselves demand justification prior to any appeal to security benefits.
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    • 2.The security private property provides to holders is systematically purchased at the cost of insecurity for those excluded from ownership.
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    • 1.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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    • 2.Superior stewardship claims rest on empirical comparisons that disregard well-documented cases of successful commons governance, as Ostrom's work establishes.
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    Contracts lie at the very core of economic thought. A simple purchase is a type of contract, the use of money another. Property rights are also grounded in the idea of a contract, at least since the early modern period. Aristotle had argued in favor of private property, primarily with appeals to security and superior stewardship. Aquinas reinforced these claims but also argued that in the case of a famine or siege, one might appropriate available foods to fulfil the Christian dictate of self-pre
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