I see your point on matter of perspective. But I disagree on the arbitrariness of property rights, but let's save that debate for another time.
But regarding contradictions, as a matter of fact, I am not contradicting myself about ownership; rather you are falling victim to equivocation between two different meanings of giving something away, as well as two different concepts of information (the information in abstract and a single copy of the information).
No one exclusively owns the code in my right-handedness gene. I still own my exact copies of it and the ability for specifically me to contribute another copy of it to someone else, and a number of other things that I have the exclusive ability to do with these copies of information in absence of coercion. It looks like you are confusing these various distinct things and lumping them into one, a common mistake (and one of the reasons we have such things as "intellectual property rights," as well as why people get very tripped up when they first learn object oriented programming too).
I believe that property rights are fundamentally based in information and conflict initiation.
Kevin's Bacon
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