> all of your counterexamples involve the government

I’m trying to avoid the miasma of conflicting rights. Somewhere in this thread I referenced a car spilling diesel on private land. This impact the value of neighbouring plots. On entirely private merits, the owner’s ability to operate their property, on their property, willy nilly, is curtailed.

Simpler, if more absurd example: someone’s pet or kid wanders on your property. This curtails what you can do, with your property on your property. You own both. But you don’t control everything which happens upon it.

Seizing on this distinction is immensely clarifying. It’s the difference between talking about computers in general and knowing the protocols.