Civil Discourse: Property Rights

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

... Your sense of 'self' and 'I' are completely informed by your upbringing. Even the concept of 'self' and 'other' is learned. Consider that infants do not distinguish the world as separate from themselves until something like a year old, IIRC. It is just as easy for me to consider a world view where there is 'food' not 'my food'.

[S]moothmoniker defined natural rights as "... universal, inalienable, and usually self-evident." The last criteria of self evidence is the purview of sufficiently developed (i.e. self sufficient) humans, not infants and children.

Your world view consideration works when there's enough food to go around. When there isn't and it becomes a matter of life or death, the instinct for survival kicks in and the concept of "mine" develops as one of many coping mechanisms organic to the human organism right along with the fight or flight response.