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    Indeed the perspective of the asset manager is more frequently taken in
    today's public discourse than the perspective of moral evaluation.

Our mission is to counter and reverse that tendency.

									Which
    is one more reason why there is no way around the concept of immaterial
    property or whatever we call it.

The use of terms such as "XYZ property" tends to encourage the people
to approach these issues with the asset-manager mentality.  If we want
to encourage people to see these issues from other directions, we
should therefore reject such terms.

