Mercy comments on I've had it with those dark rumours about our culture rigorously suppressing opinions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mercy 31 January 2012 05:57:53PM 2 points [-]

Property laws aren't based on their owners having created them though. Ted Turner is not in the land reclamation business, and if I go down a disused quarry owned by another and build myself a table, I don't gain ownership of the marble. All defenses of actually existing property rights are answers to the question "how do we encourage people to manage resources sensibly".