 Finally, in this review of direct normative arguments about property, we should consider the moral importance property might have in respect of what it is, rather than what it does or brings about. Property rights in and of themselves give people a certain status and recognition in society: a property owner is respected in his or her control of a resource (Dorfman 2012). This is surely important; it was, as we saw, one of the themes of the approach taken in Hegel 1967 and in Kant 1991 (see Byrd and Hruschka 2006). But it can have critical implications for property too, for if property is unevenly distributed, if inequality is radical and some are more or less comprehensively bereft of property rights, then acute issues have to be faced about the uneven distribution of the bases of respect. We cannot take seriously the good that property rights do in regard to moral recognition without also considering the inherent harm of absence of such recognition in the case of those who own nothing.