Besides the sins that attack the person of our neighbour, what is the greatest sin that can be committed against him by deed?
It is the sin which touches what belongs to him (LXVI.).
Has man the right to possess anything?
Yes, and to use it as he wills, without the interference of anyone else (LXVI. 2).
Whence comes this right?
It comes from the very nature of man himself; for since he is a rational being and made to live in society, his own good, the good of his family, and the good of society absolutely demand that the right of property be safeguarded (LXVI. 1, 2).
But why do these divers goods demand the safeguarding of the right of property?
It is because the right to possess is a condition of man's liberty, it is, moreover, for the family, the way par excellence whereby it is upheld in all its rights and is the guarantee of its existence in the society; further, this right of property effects that in the society itself more care is taken of things to the exclusion in a great measure of disagreements and litigations (LXVI. 2).
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