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    A gift that cannot be rejected is not truly a gift, under... — Carmelics
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    A gift that cannot be rejected is not truly a gift, undermining the gift analogy as a prohibition against suicide.

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    • 1.Kant's categorical imperative treats persons as ends in themselves, requiring that rational agents retain ultimate authority over their own existence.
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    • 2.A benefactor who imposes irrevocable obligations as conditions of a gift transforms generosity into coercion, violating the autonomy that grounds moral personhood.
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    • 3.If the gift-giver's intent includes permanent binding obligation, the recipient's rational agency is subordinated to the giver's will, negating the relational equality gifts presuppose.
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    • 1.John Stuart Mill's harm principle holds that an individual's sovereignty over their own body and mind is absolute against paternalistic interference.
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    • 2.Aquinas's own gift analogy depends on a divine ownership claim, but ownership-based prohibitions collapse if the supposed owner deliberately constituted agents with autonomous will.
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    • 3.A gift given specifically to a self-determining being cannot coherently retain conditions that annul that very self-determination without internal contradiction.
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    • 1.A genuine gift must be rejectable by the recipient.
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    • 2.The gift analogy implies life cannot be rejected or disposed of without wrongdoing.
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    • 3.Therefore life under the gift analogy does not qualify as a genuine gift.
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    Another common analogy asserts that God bestows life upon us as a gift, and it would be a mark of ingratitude or neglect to reject that gift by taking our lives. The obvious weakness with this “gift analogy” is that a gift, genuinely given, does not come with conditions such as that suggested by the analogy, i.e., once given, a gift becomes the property of its recipient and its giver no longer has any claim on what the recipient does with this gift. It may perhaps be imprudent to waste an especi
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