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"Only because scarcity exists is there even a problem of formulating moral laws; insofar as goods are superabundant ('free' goods), no conflict over the use of goods is possible and no action-coordination is needed."

— Kinsella, Stephan

Context: Cited in Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), originally from Hoppe's argumentation ethics, used by Kinsella as the foundational premise of his entire critique of IP, if goods were non-scarce, property rules would be unnecessary, so granting IP rights over non-scarce ideas is a category error

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