property (n.) means a man's life, liberty and estate together.

John Locke on Property

Cannot Be Owned

Invite Ownership

Need Boundaries

Punish Maintenance

property

private property

Superman

Japan

real estate

trivia

imperialism

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nonsense question

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J.R.R. Tolkien

destruction of property

ownership

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means a man's life, liberty and estate together.

Recast in definition form from: “hath by nature a power, not only to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate, against the injuries and attempts of other men”

is never acquired without acquiring a little arithmetic also.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. Ralph Waldo Emerson

is based on violence and slaying and the threat thereof.

Property is based on violence and slaying and the threat thereof.

that another can take from me by right whenever he pleases is no property at all.

Recast in definition form from: “without this they have no property at all; for I have truly no property in that, which another can by right take from me, when he pleases, against my consent.”

needs no one's permission: the grass my horse has bitten and the turf my servant has cut become mine without anybody's consent.

Recast in definition form from: “Thus the grass my horse has bit; the turfs my servant has cut; and the ore I have digged in any place, where I have a right to them in common with others, become my property, without the assignation or consent of any body.”

begins when you mix your labour with something nature left in common: you join to it something that is your own, and it becomes yours.

Recast in definition form from: “Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.”

begins at the picking: if the acorn was not his when he gathered it — not when he boiled, ate or digested it — nothing else could make it his.

Recast in definition form from: “I ask then, when did they begin to be his? when he digested? or when he eat? or when he boiled? or when he brought them home? or when he picked them up? and it is plain, if the first gathering made them not his, nothing else could.”

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