How do you know you're a person open to reason?

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You want to make it seem like you don't need a law degree to identify theft but what happens when two people claim ownership over the same thing?

Either it becomes an issue about legal ownership or it becomes a conflict that needs to be resolved by some other means including violence.

With law we have a method to identifying what someone does or does not own. Without law, ownership literally becomes a logistical problem of what you can secure from others. Law secures your ownership. If, for example, someone steals your car, you can sick the cops on them. As opposed to taking the law in your own hands and hunting them down yourself, or whatever it is you imagine a person needs to do to secure the things he claims to own.

I totally agree. This is why we have law.

Do you think this addresses the claim that the distinction between taxation and wrongful taking* is the law?

*I'll use the phrase "wrongful taking" instead of "theft" since it seems this may be creating some confusion, even though I do not see how they are different since the law does not make something necessarily moral.