Without the concept of morality or ownership, it would be impossible for bequests to be made to one's heirs and survivors.  It would be impossible for a man or woman to own anything beyond his immediate physical ability to possess and control it.

We can see that human well-being was enormously improved by ideas of ownership and morality, although admittedly these ideas have never worked perfectly or with total acceptance by everyone.

However, those groups of people who have accepted ownership as a moral position have had much higher standards of living overall, than those who have not accepted or adhered to such moral concepts.

Ownership (moral possession) is predicated upon the intellectual recognition of individual claim to property, rather than upon the insistence that force be employed, or that force be the underlying principle upon which possession and ownership is based.

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