I respectfully agree. Property rights do have a moral component as well as a pragmatic component. > The problem is that we've been manipulated to believe priv

I respectfully agree. Property rights do have a moral component as well as a pragmatic component. > The problem is that we've been manipulated to believe privacy has no real moral claim. I agree. We've also been manipulated to behave as if we believed property rights automatically trump other morals. My point isn't that we should ignore the morality of these issues. My point is the morality of these issues can't be talked about in isolation because moral values aren't orthogonal to each other. Morality also shouldn't be discussed without taking pragmatic realities into account. You have to balance the two. Not everything is cut and dry.