This photo was taken right at the beginning of our gingerbread house journey. We took the candy from both kits and threw it all into the middle, seemingly to be shared by both groups. However, it turned into a competition for which house could be better, and both sides became not friendly as a result.As soon as we decided to have a competition, we snatched the bags of candy back to our respective sides. This is Locke’s theory of appropriated resources and private property. In the natural state, both teams should have been able to use the resources naturally bestowed upon us by the candy company, but we privatized its use.Locke claims that all people are naturally equal, but this proves to be untrue in many situations. The materials we were given were unequal to the materials given to the other pairing, creating an unequal opportunity for success. However, Locke’s theory of our freedom to make choices factored heavily into our final houses.Lydia and I made the choice to follow our instruction booklet to create the log cabin-esque gingerbread house, whereas Emily and Olivia forged their own path (after the gingerbread pieces broke apart of course) to create a different piece.Although we were slightly unequal in the beginning of the ordeal, based on what we were given by nature (Michaels craft store gingerbread kits), our freedom to do what we want with our property leads to many different outcomes.
