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Rachel Maddow vs. GOP Wacko Art Robinson

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)10/11/2010 10:50:50 am PDT

re: #931 reason0911

It is mine because I have brought it into existence through the use of my body.

This is not true, except in the rarest of cases. In cases where it is true— where you have, for example, dug up a diamond, your ownership of that diamond is dependent on having a civil society that recognizes the concept of ownership and protects it through laws.

My body is mine, therefore the produce of my body is mine as well.

This is demonstrably false. If you work at a factory, you do not own what you produce. You produce it in concert with the owner of capital. Likewise, in civil society, you produce what you do in concert with that society, with the laws, system of education, systems of redress, and infrastructure.

If I pick an apple from a tree in from land that is unowned, whose apple is it?

There is no unowned land— but even here, you disprove your own argument.