Especially as we can view governments as just a large voluntary association.
We can, but does anyone? I feel like you're way too reasonable to actually believe this, and you're just playing devil's advocate with me here.
In other words, a legal system of property rights does exist, and it is not "natural." One cannot get away from the arbitrariness of setting property rights.
If that's not natural, I have no idea what is. What would YOU suggest is a "natural" way of determining property rights. You say "arbitrariness" as if its a bad thing. Would you rather live in a society where there were no property rights at all? I would suggest to you that such a thing never has, and never could, exist.
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