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    It is not the case that There is a duty of right to act towards others so that external, usable objects can become someone's property.

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    • 1.A duty of right must be universalizable, but universal private property rights necessarily exclude some persons from ownership.
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    • 2.What cannot be universalized without contradiction cannot ground a categorical duty of right in the Kantian sense.
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    • 3.Therefore, the claimed duty undermines itself when applied to all rational agents simultaneously.
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    • 1.Proudhon and subsequent anarchist theorists demonstrate that property systems structurally encode relations of domination, not merely agency-protection.
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    • 2.If property institutions generate coercive power asymmetries, they affront the very agency they purport to secure for non-owners.
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    • 3.A putative duty cannot obligate agents to establish institutions that predictably violate the normative foundation invoked to justify them.
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    • 1.If no system existed permitting useful objects to be used, there would be an affront to human agency and personality.
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    • 2.Property systems are necessary to protect human agency.
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