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Faculties are used to affect material goods and to provide services to one's self or other people. All material products of labor, including any incorporated unowned parts, become property. The fruit of one's labor is natural property. A person is not self-owned unless he owns his products.
The will and faculties are unalienable. Products are alienable; they can be traded and gifted.
The conditions for society being beneficial to a person's life are given by Ayn Rand:
Can man derive any personal benefit from living in a human society? Yes - if it is a human society. The two great values to be gained from social existence are: knowledge and trade ... But these very benefits indicate, delimit and define what kind of men can be of value to one another and in what kind of society: only rational, productive, independent men in a rational, productive, free society. Parasites, moochers, looters, brutes and thugs can be of no value to a human being - nor can he gain any benefit from living in a society geared to their needs, demands and protection, a society that treats him as a sacrificial animal ... No society can be of value to man's life if the price is the surrender of his right to his life. - Ayn Rand, "The Objectivist Ethics"
Murray Rothbard gives essentially the same argument:
While the behavior of plants and at least the lower animals is determined by their biological nature or perhaps by their "instincts," the nature of man is such that each individual person must, in order to act, choose his own ends and employ his own means in order to attain them. Possessing no automatic instincts, each man must learn about himself and the world, use his mind to select values, learn about cause and effect, and act purposively to maintain himself and advance his life. Since men can think, feel, evaluate, and act only as individuals, it becomes vitally necessary for each man's survival and prosperity that he be free to learn, choose, develop his faculties, and act upon his knowledge and values. This is the necessary path of human nature; to interfere with and cripple this process by using violence goes profoundly against what is necessary by man's nature for his life and prosperity. - Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty
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