• FundMECFS
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        The way i distinguish:

        property in that you have a piece of paper saying something is yours and you can prevent people from using that thing or extract value from it, while not using it yourself. That’s theft.

        But possession, ie. having things that you use, a house you live in etc. that’s not theft unless other circumstances that lead to the possession are theft.

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            It’s all about terminology. I like the concept of usofruct where your right to own something is bound to either use it directly or collect its fruits (in a literal or figurative sense). So a landlord wouldn’t own a house but the people living there would. This has it’s roots in Roman law where ownership had three aspects: usus, fructus and abusus (misuse, destroy, …)

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          cars have paper attached to them, should people be forced to use cars to keep them?

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        This is so obvious I don’t understand why it needs highlighting. Nobody here is suggesting you cannot have stuff.