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    It is not the case that 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.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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    Reasons Against

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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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    Reason against 2 of 2
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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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