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@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ The notion of "rights" arises when a creature, having a certain objectively requ
 - <Trader principle>.
 - Ergo finally, due to the metaphysical nature of rational beings as rational beings, which must live as such, the moral code which preserves and promotes rational life **demands rationality**; and the right to pursue that moral code in a social context **demands productivity**.
 
-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 right therefore, cannot consist of a claim to predate on other rational beings (which would amount to treating the victim as less than human) -- 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.