Thinking more about the thread Femi made here I think something like the ostrich response is also behind the kind of There Are Never Any Trade Offs Or Resource Constraints perspective one sometimes sees, cos it would solve this issue too.

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'is private property an intrinsic metaphysical relation between an Individual and some Matter, or is it a social relation enforced by the state's monopoly on violence?' locked by a moderator after 12,384 pages of heated debate

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I used to think “How can they still tax you every year on the home you *own*?!?! That’s unfair!” But I was 13 at the time.

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I think you're talking about a different thing. if you think A and I think B (and A and B are incompatible) then maybe in *some sense* a coalition that includes us both contains a contradiction of some kind but this kind of arrangement doesn't require either of us or the coalition to be incoherent

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i could see how *toleration of incoherence* might be a feature rather than a bug but don't see how the incoherence itself would be

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