By Bruce Bower 
WASHINGTON ? Young children are possessed by possessions. Preschoolers argue about what belongs to whom with annoying regularity, a habit that might suggest limited appreciation of what it means to own something.
But it?s actually just the opposite, psychologist Ori Friedman of the University of Waterloo in Canada reported on May 28 at the Association for Psychological Science annual meeting. At ages 4 and 5, youngsters value a person?s ownership rights ? say, to a crayon ? far more strongly than adults do, Friedman and psychology graduate student Karen Neary found.
Rather than being learned from parents, a concept of property rights may automatically grow out of 2- to 3-year-olds? ideas about bodily rights, such as assuming that another person can?t touch or control one?s body for no reason, Friedman proposed.
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Well! We just need to re-educate those little libertarians and make sure those nasty property rights tendencies don't cause a problem for the common good of this land!!!
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