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[Spallenzani]

Are you asking me why I think it's wrong or why it's wrong in the eyes of the law?

I am asking you why you think it is immoral.

think the concept of property rights is pretty meaningless if a landowner has no recourse against a squatter.

I agree, but only if the squatter has deprived the owner of use. The landowner should certainly be able to tell the squatter to get off of his property, but I am trying to understand why using something that someone else owns but is not using is a moral wrong.

Is it correct to say that YOU don't think it's wrong?

I don't know. That's why I'm trying to explore this issue.

It's January, and you don't have any renters scheduled for the next four months. Do you think you should have recourse to the courts or the police to eject me?

Yes. As the owner, I have the right to make decisions regarding the use of my property. But I think that is seperate from the moral question of whether I have done something wrong by squatting and causing the owner no harm.

Or in your anarcholibertarian dream society would we just shoot it out? ;)

Anarcho-capitalists argue for courts and police, just not government monopoly ownership of them.