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I'm not an arbiter of what's right and wrong. I'm just some guy who gets to decide which rights I'll stand up and defend, and which ones I'll allow to lapse. My reasons are irrelevant to whether my behavior contributes to the emergence or dissolution of rights (but I think they happen to be deontological arguments anyway).

Bodily autonomy, I'll defend in all cases, no need to argue that one here.

Property, not so much. It's part of a bargain. If the people with an outsized share of the property don't exercise their control over surpluses to ensure some degree of decency for all (which they haven't) then they're in breach of the social contract, and is time for a discontinuity in property rights that gives us a different set of people to try out the same contact on.



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