The finishing touch of Marx's final debate in the case of punishing loggers for picking up dead branches can be his views on workers' rights and interests and social justice.

Marx believed that workers should get reasonable remuneration and rights protection, and should not be treated unfairly and exploited. He may emphasize that workers pick up dead branches to meet the basic needs of survival, and this behavior has not caused substantial damage to anyone.

Therefore, it is obviously unfair to give excessive punishment to such an act of voluntary labor, and it violates the rights and interests of workers and the principle of social justice. Therefore, Marx's argument may be calling for the abolition of the punishment of loggers, protecting their legitimate rights and interests, and promoting the establishment of a more just and equal social system.

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Marx, who was only 24 years old, took an active part in commenting on the debate of the 6th Rhine Provincial Assembly during 1842 and 10, and published several important articles in succession.

Among them, Marx's comments on the debate on forest theft law deeply analyzed the legal relationship and moral concept of Prussian feudalism, publicly defended the human rights and material interests of the poor for the first time, and sharply criticized the parliamentary debate on safeguarding the privilege of forest owners and deviating from jurisprudence and morality.

This commentary not only showed Marx's superb political wisdom and logical power, but also broke through the vague mode of German speculative philosophy, from the depth of thought to the economic field of real society, to the roots of jurisprudence and justice, which opened his life-long scientific research on political economy.

According to Marx's strict legal analysis, there are two differences between picking up dead branches and stealing trees. First, if you occupy a living tree, it is to cut off or destroy the organic connection of all parts of the tree by violence. This behavior is an obvious violation of trees, but also an infringement of the rights of tree owners.

Second, if the felled trees are stolen from others, then the trees are already processed trees, and the natural connection with property has given way to artificial connection. Then whoever steals the felled trees will steal other people's property. This is the difference between the behavior facts themselves. In other words, picking up dead trees is different from violating forest management regulations and illegally cutting trees.

Picking up dead trees does not mean violating forest management regulations, and it does not mean stealing trees. Forest thieves take other people's property for themselves without permission, while those who pick up dead trees only make choices for those dead trees that no longer belong to the property itself. Different objects have different behaviors, so the nature of their intentions must be different.