I maintain that a proponent of such an ethics would object as follows: 'If what was taken from the person in question is not spoiled in any manner but is only used, then this does not interfere with the furthering of reason's end, which ought to be the ultimate goal of all our acting; moreover, if, let us say, the new property owner were to employ it in a better manner than it would have been employed by the first person from whom it was taken then