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Comment by s1artibartfast

That is an ahistorical perspective. For most of human history, you could be killed for putting a yurt or hut in someone else's land. Even chimps will kill others for infringing on territory.

There were breif periods where humans entered virgin land, but these people migrated because other land and resources were spoken for.

>Private property is just a legitimized theft, because it leaves some people without access to land or natural resources that is required for survival.

This is reverse reasoning. people lacking resources doesn't imply it was stolen from them. The alternative is that they simply didn't start with any.

Rights don't derive from wants or needs.

My wanting a pony does not give me a natural right to a pony. My hunger does not give me a natural right to food

>It's not true that without private property you get state slavery or a strongman situation, you may check Zapatistas

The zapititistas did not acquire all their land, people, and resources through free choice, nor were people free to stop collaborating if they chose.

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