Few concepts are less understood and appreciated than that of boundaries. I consider this to be unfortunate. The reason I think so is because the idea of boundaries touches on so many areas of life. You can hardly turn in one direction or another without coming face to face with it and its implications.

          In fact, I am convinced that having a thorough understanding of the concept of boundaries will enable us to understand and solve a number of the pressing problems which we are currently facing.

          I believe understanding the idea of boundaries is the key to unlocking some very important doors of understanding about matters such as the foundation of morality.

         Let me offer an example which I find indisputable but others have indicated they consider ridiculous. I believe that all morality is based upon property rights and that consequently nothing is immoral which is not a violation of someone's property rights. Theft, assault, fraud, robbery and murder are all violations of a person's private property rights. Assault and murder are a violation of a person's right of self-ownership. Theft, fraud and robbery are a violation of a person's property rights to justly acquired property.

        Ergo, no property rights violation, no immorality. This brings me back to the importance of boundaries. When people claim that certain acts are immoral, which have no clearly definable boundaries they are opening up a can of worms.

        For example, someone in opposition to my position on morality recently told me that bullying was immoral. I asked them what bullying is exactly, and who gets to decide what is and isn't a case of bullying. That is the problem. There is no clear boundary which all can agree upon.