The fact that animals can obviously not petition for their "rights" is part of their nature, and part of the reason why they are clearly not equivalent to, and do not possess the rights of, human beings.

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Is Intellectual Property the Key to Success?

Tags: Monopoly and Competition, Philosophy and Methodology, Legal System

07/05/2007 Jeffrey A. Tucker

But what you are not permitted to do in a free market is use violence in the attempt to create an artificial scarcity, which is all that IP legislation really does.

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