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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
Another way to think about it is that property precedes government, whereas copyright does not. Before there ever way government you could possess stuff, and it was yours unless you gave it away or someone else took it from you.
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I just want to flag that that's a controversial view of property, and shouldn't be taken for granted without serious argument. Locke would agree with you, but Aquinas probably would not.