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    It is not the case that When an individual labors on an unowned object, rights to control over that object are generated.

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    • 1.Labor mixing with an unowned object gives no principled reason to gain the object rather than lose the labor (Nozick's 'tomato juice' objection).
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    • 2.Ownership of labor does not entail ownership of every object with which labor is causally entangled, only the value added by that labor.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Pre-social property rights cannot be established by labor alone; property institutions require prior social recognition and enforcement to be legitimate (Hume, Rawls).
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    • 2.If property rights precede and are independent of social convention, they cannot ground the specific legal entitlements modern IP regimes actually confer.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Individuals own their own bodies and labor (self-ownership).
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    • 2.When an individual labors on an unowned object, the labor becomes infused in the object.
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    • 3.For the most part, the labor and the object cannot be separated once mixed.
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