This is a broad question, so I will also accept an answer in terms of the below example.
Suppose that, out of paranoia, I buy or otherwise legitimately obtain a truly huge quantity of potable water and hoard it in an abandoned missile silo which I have also bought. Everyone rightly regards me as a lunatic, and I become famous as the water man. But one day, while I am tooling around in my silo, a nuclear apocalypse happens, ruining all the potable water on the continent except for mine. Suddenly thousands of people show up begging for water, demanding it, trying to compromise my silo, etc.
(1) Do I own the water and the silo?
(2) Do I have the right to ask any price I like for the water? (Or not - e.g., only a low price, or free?)
(3) If I am not allowed to ask any price I like for the water, is that because I don't own it or because I don't have the right to ask any price I like for what I own?
2006-10-22
13:34:57
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