If you put a butterfly in a cage, it does not belong to you.
If you let the butterfly out of the cage, and it flies away, then you never truly owned it.
If you let the butterfly out of the cage, and it flies back to you, only then, does it truly belong to you.
If the butterfly is kept in your possession by force, then how much is its possession actually worth? And is it truly your possession?
compguy248: im gonna test that
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"If the butterfly is kept in your possession by force, then how much is its possession actually worth? And is it truly your possession?"
If the butterfly is in my possession, then it was worth the effort I put forth to capture it at the very least. Otherwise I wouldn't have it.
It could be argued that the effort I put forth, alone, justifies my possession of it.
What if you were given the butterfly and therefore no effort was put forth?