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From: wellspringcp <69349872+wellspringcp@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:40:28 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Update 01-03-equality-vs-the-morality-of-life-apologia.md

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 A right therefore, cannot consist of a claim to predate on other rational beings -- whether on their minds, their bodies or their produce. A right for a rational creature consists solely of a right to exercise one's own capabilities toward the moral end of one's own life **qua rational being**, within a social context.
 
+A rational creature which refuses to exercise its rationality to be productive, but prefers to predate and be brutish has voluntarily chosen to be a predator and a brute -- and the entire justification of private property law is that it preserves the life of rational beings to live qua rational being, and to free them from the predations of those who choose to live as less than rational beings. I.e, private property law is the set of restrictions which free individuals who are acting in line with a moral code, from the predations of the immoral. **Private property law is moral law**.
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 ## A word on "Equality"
 
 ### Why we must graduate past "Equality" as our foundation for rights: