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totony

Is claiming property over things ethical? What inherent human right gives ownership of a resource to someone?

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Traditionally it's been violence, but at some point(s) we decided that wasn't the best course of action.

The same can't be said of the government, of course.

Whatever the way in which something is obtained, it's possession does not seem to me to be an inherent right.

My question was aimed at the OP stating as fact that

>People protecting their property is an ethical action.

Which does not seem true to me.

If you and I get marooned on an unclaimed island and I construct a spear for hunting crabs, you have no right to my spear. I am within my natural rights to defend my property should you try to take it by force.

If you constructed that spear with the only stick on the island, would you still hold that it is ethical for you to keep it for yourself?

Can you claim ownership of part (or the whole) of the island?

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