No property over humans

Although one Being can be the property of another (organisations are owned, for example, by their shareholders or by whoever created them, see §02.00.07), this does not apply to humans. A human cannot, logically, be the property of another human (or in the same context, of another Being), notwithstanding centuries of human slavery. Why is that? In short, because of the platform right to liberty. Because all humans receive a name and a citizenship directly from their state, all humans are born free from control by other humans, that is, all humans are born at liberty from other humans. Of course, whether the platform right of liberty materialises (and to what extent) on any information platform that is a state at any moment in human history (and whether for all or only for a few) is a matter of politics—as can be seen by the issue of property over artificial Beings (specifically, computer programs) that remains undecided today.

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