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@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ The notion of "rights" arises when a creature, having a certain objectively requ
A right therefore, cannot consist of a claim to predate on other rational beings (which would amount to treating both the victim and oneself 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; and the fundamental right is the right to pursue one's own life and holistic flourishing -- or, the right to life **qua rational being**.
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 right of rational beings to live qua rational being, and frees 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 an objective moral code, from the predations of other rational beings who act immorally.
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 right of rational beings to live qua rational being, and frees 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 frees individuals who are acting in line with an objective moral code, from the predations of other rational beings who act immorally.
**Private property law is moral law** and rights, which are claims to moral actions, require the concomitant protections of private property law. They go hand in hand.