Soto eloquently explained the social need for preserving the secrecy of some of our acts, as well as the nature of the wrong involved in revealing the secrets of others. For him, the wrongness of defaming a person consists in the violation of her property right to her reputation. If reputation, is property it is up to the individual to decide how to use or squander it. The property approach to reputation was not devoid of critics. They were inspired by Cajetan’s view that a person who self-defames deprives the community of something that belongs to it. Tomás Hurtado, argued that the community has eminent domain over our reputation so that its destruction injures the community. He also suggested that in order for the community to benefit from one’s membership one has a duty to preserve oneself as a person who, as far as the public knows, can be held in respect and to not purposefully disgrace oneself by revealing hidden misdeeds.