[Nition]

Not just things with sentimental value but just anything you're still using as well. It sounds like you'd be living in fear any time you invited someone over that they'd start saying they'll buy your frying pan and your second couch or something. And you'd have to let them buy it.

Then you have to go to the shops and buy new stuff... or just go over to their house the next day and buy it all back at the same price. Maybe see if they've got any other good stuff that isn't worth much while you're there.

Or you could just buy it back immediately when they buy it from you, stuck in an infinite While loop of ownership.

[ljf]

Why would they want to buy your frying pan? Is the value you've given it very low, making it cheaper to buy yours than another one? Is there a shortage of frying pans, increasing the value of yours?

[oconnor663]

People are often angry with each other and eager to hurt each other in any legal way available. (Ask your friendly neighborhood divorce lawyer for their stories.) This sort "anyone can take your stuff if they're irrational enough" would be very easy to exploit to make someone's life miserable. And the problem only gets worse if you imagine a normal person making a very rich person angry.

[Nition]

Thank you, you said it better than me. Any system where anyone can take someone's stuff without their consent, even for a price, would never work.

[Nition]

They see you have a good pan and want one that's the same. Buying yours is less effort than going to the shops and faster than ordering one.

Obviously social decorum would usually prevent this scenario, but the fear of possibility remains.

[puszczyk]

Maybe that firing pan is owned by a rockstar ?

[IG_Semmelweiss]

Its trivial to limit this rule to assets that the government tracks transfers of

For example cars, land, air rights, real property.

This would also settle the issue of eminent domain once and for all. Put up or shut up.