On the bright side this argument has given me a way to bring people to modern conservatism from modern liberalism:
Democrats are typically pro-choice. Obviously, they believe the mother has no obligation to feed the fetus. Hence, if even family ties do not matter to them, then how are entitlements in any way justified? BAM. Pro-choice makes people conservative, a decent step towards libertarian.
I have recently come to find a way to make property rights lead to self-ownership through homesteading.
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Assume property rights.
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Person is born. He can control his body. Hence he homesteads his body
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Homesteading leads to ownership, hence self-ownership
Is this a bad line of reasoning?
If not, then a baby acting in the womb might be enough for it to homestead itself, creating self-ownership.