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Re:What America looked like before the EPA, in photos by circlefavshape on Friday March 16, 2018 @06:46AM (#16599777)
Animals have territories too (some collective, some individual), and defend them. I expect our notions of 'property rights' evolved from that
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Re:What America looked like before the EPA, in photos by zaarn on Friday March 16, 2018 @06:49AM (#16599781)
Maybe, yes, but it doesn't make property right an inherent part of nature, merely a rather popular tactic for higher-evolved animes (I don't see mold taking territories, it grows where it grows and doesn't have any intelligence to defend it or see it as it's own).
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Re:What America looked like before the EPA, in photos by circlefavshape on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @11:42AM (#16629523)
I'm not arguing the case for property rights, merely pointing out they have a precedent in the natural world
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