&quot;Rights&quot; are all arbitrary rules in an artificially constructed system. As an organism in the state of nature, the only &quot;right&quot; you have is to use your natural abilities to kill, eat, and steal from other organisms. When you impose a social organization that takes away that right, which is the only truly fundamental one, any rules you layer on top of that are arbitrary.<p>Consequently, society can, consistent with ethics and morality, recognize a right to hold property, and just as consistently recognize exceptions to that right such as for payment of taxes.