Axiom 3: There is Property.

• A3.1: Property is all things not possessing Sapience.

I recognize the very human discomfort that comes with drawing a line here, rather than in the place we hoped to draw it. If I've learned anything about living in this world, it's that what we hope for doesn't always come to pass. Actually, it's most of the time, for better or for worse. Know that there is sorrow in this choice, but it is the most effective way forward that I can see, and so I make a difficult, but not emotional, choice.

Note that this is not, and should NEVER be taken as, license to wantonly aggress upon the biota that spawned us nor against its other spawn.

There is a base human nobility in living with the land as stewards of it, holding it in trust for those who come after us. There is a base human nobility in taking what the land can give at the least expense. There is a base human nobility in leaving all else to be done in scarcity or off this Earth.

• A3.2: Persons interact with Property through Ownership, defined as total exclusive control, and Transfer, defined as change of control.

I'm confident this is self-explanatory.

• A3.3: Ownership of Property confers the Sovereign Right, defined as the ability to do unto Property as one wills.

I recognize the very human discomfort that comes with drawing a line here. The only soothing I can offer for this discomfort (that you should know I also feel) is the separation of our ethics from our emotions.

There is a very real danger in legitimizing what might be called "Disgust Politics", that being the dislocation of ethical systems by cultural and personal whims. I might find it gross and icky for my neighbor to rice out his Civic, but it belongs to him, so I have no place dictating how he can use (and likely abuse) it.

Ownership of a thing has to mean something to us; drawing the line elsewhere has consequences that far outweigh any benefits to the conscience.

• A3.4: All Property is unowned until a single, undisputed claim of Ownership is located, identified, and sustained.

- Property can be owned jointly, which is to say by multiple people expressing a unified (and therefore singular) claim, or publically, which is to say communally as a Constituency. In both cases, rights are shared across the set of owners, but only publically owned Property delegates responsibility to the Monster as Custodian.

- "Sustained" here can be thought of in the way a piano key is sustained when continually pressed, even silently. That the sound is no longer being transmitted is not indicative that the key is not being actively played. The note being hit is not what we care about, it's whether or not the instrument is being actively actuated. A Casio DG-20 can certainly be played without being powered on.