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by ars 1205 days ago
> Absent laws, it would be perfectly acceptable for me to take your things if someone else made them for you?

Regarding intellectual property? Yes, that would be perfectly fine. That's an entirely law based creation, not a moral one.

> And it would be morally wrong to make changes to something once I own it, if I wasn't the originator of the thing?

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors%27_rights