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Anders Munnell Kruus's avatar

I perked up at your comment that even "groups" are only shared beliefs, so assigning shared beliefs (property rights) apportioned by shared beliefs (membership in a group) with validation from shared beliefs (history) as adjudicated by shared beliefs (laws & rules) does sound like a recipe for conflict ..

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Reka Blazsek's avatar

Nice essay! Looking forward to reading Part II and more. I do cognitive science research on exactly this topic. I tend to distinguish ownership intuitions/beliefs from property rights. By and large property rights are formalised ownership intuitions, but they don't necessarily overlap 100%. The legal system serves a specific function in society and defines property rights in domains that intuitions don't need to cover, such as highly technical areas in, say, company law.

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