Moral behavior, for the purpose of this study, is confined to inter-human behavior.  We are concerned with the individual, and his dependency upon property.

There are in this sense only two kinds of relationships: the relationship of one individual to another individual, and the relationship of an individual and his or her own property.

In the first relationship, a situatiion of equality pertains, based upon the recognition that both individuals are members of the same species, for whom the same rules (principles) apply, and both of whom are seeking satisfactions (profit) in human ways.

In the relationship of an individual to property, there is only one kind of relationship that has meaning - the relationship of ownership.

This relationship is one of authority and non-equality.  The owner is sovereign over his or her own property.  The property is not his equal, it is merely an extension of his person.  Thus he has dominion over it in the same way that he exercises his will over the control of his own person.

No individual has any relationship at all with the property of another individual.

The moment he is in contact with another man's property, he is really in contact with the other man, for the other man's property is rightfully nothing more than an extension of the other man's person.

The rule that can be discerned as arising from nature is as follows: when an individual imposes his control on the property of another individual (an extention of the other indivdual), he or she is making that individual his or her slave to some degree. 

He or she is seeking to substitute his or her own control over the other individual, in place of the control that nature has provided the other individual over him or her self.

Any such action, wherein the will of a property owner is thwarted by the imposition of the will of a second individual in respect to that property (be it the individual's person or some other type or form of property), it is properly classed as immoral (not moral) - in other words, an action that is counter to a moral principle.

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