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Property designates
those things commonly recognized as the entities in respect of
which a person or group has exclusive rights. Important types
of property include real property (land), personal property (other
physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over
artistic creations, inventions, etc.). A right of ownership is
associated with property that establishes the good as being "one's
own thing" in relation to other individuals or groups, assuring
the owner the right to dispense with the property in a manner
he or she sees fit, whether to use or not use, exclude others
from using, or to transfer ownership. Some philosophers assert
that property rights arise from social convention. Others find
origins for them in morality or natural law.
A community is a social group of organisms
sharing an environment, normally with shared interests. In human
communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks
and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting
the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.
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