Editing Homestead principle (section)

=== Hans-Hermann Hoppe ===
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Similarly to de-Jasay, [[Hans-Hermann Hoppe]] argues that the denial of the homesteading rule entails a [[performative contradiction]]. That is because honest argumentation must presuppose an [[intersubjective verifiability|intersubjectively ascertainable]] (i.e. justifiable) [[Norm (philosophy)|norm]], and all norms not relying on the original establishment of a physical (and therefore evident) link to the owner are [[Subjectivity|subjective]] in nature, and therefore contradict the presuppositions of argumentation. He writes:
: Further, if one were not allowed to appropriate other resources through homesteading action, i.e., by putting them to use before anybody else does, or if the range of objects to be homesteaded were somehow limited, this would only be possible if ownership could be acquired by mere decree instead of by action. However, this does not qualify as a solution to the problem of ethics, i.e., of conflict-avoidance, even on purely technical grounds, for it would not allow one to decide what to do if such declarative claims happened to be incompatible.<ref name=Hoppe-2006/>

: More decisive still, it would be incompatible with the already justified self-ownership, for if one could appropriate resources by decree, this would imply that one could also declare another person's body to be one's own. Thus, anyone denying the validity of the homesteading principle – whose recognition is already implicit in arguing two persons' mutual respect for each other's exclusive control over his own body – would contradict the content of his proposition through his very act of proposition making.<ref name=Hoppe-2006/>

According to commentators, he initially to a labour theory of property view and later to a [[first possession theory of property]] view.<ref>Dominiak, Łukasz. (2023). Mixing Labor, Taking Possession, and Libertarianism: Response to Walter Block. Studia Z Historii Filozofii, 14(3), 169–195.</ref>