Hey, how’s it going? I hope better than I. My thinking is that we put the labor and time into studying so the “A” should be ours. Right? Sadly, I don’t think Di Stephano would be okay with that, but I think John Locke would. In the Second Treatise of Government on page 19 in section 27 Locke says, “he hath mixed his labor with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.”
Locke starts off by talking about how God has given the land to all mankind and that he is not going to try and answer the question of who should get that property, but he is going to try and show how men have come by that property. He sets it up so that people can’t really call him out on his answer and say that he is wrong. It’s actually very smart thinking by Locke. Then Locke gives an example of how man has come by property. He makes a very clear argument when he talks about the man who picks up the acorn and then eats it and digests it. This acorn is his. He has put in the work so the acorn is his and no other. Then he goes on to further explain his example and he addresses a counter argument. The counter argument says that the acorn is of the common. He goes on to say that the acorn is of no use by the common and that the man doesn’t need the explicit consent of the common. He sort of sums it up in section 28 by saying that, “The labor that was mine, removing them out of that common state they were in, hath fixed my property in them.” He has a good strong conclusion to his point.
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