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Those rules regarding property and ownership predate government. The government likes to pretend that only it can enforce those rules, when in fact it is the entity most responsible for violating them. You can't seriously claim to enforce property rights when you yourself are seizing a sizable chunk of everyone's income for your own use. Also, there is no reason at all that the rules need to be "centralized" or promulgated and enforced by some special class of rulers. Property and ownership and the justice of proportional punishment for violating them are all logical consequences of self-ownership and reciprocation. People are perfectly capable of arranging to enforce their own rights without depending on an overgrown, overpriced, centralized protection racket.