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    A person has primary authority over what may be done to h... — Carmelics
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    A person has primary authority over what may be done to his body and mind

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    • 1.A person is constituted by his body and his mind — they are parts or aspects of him
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    • 2.Any arrangement that denied a person primary say over his body and mind would be a grave indignity
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    • 3.Morality must recognize a person's existence as an independent being with ends of his own
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    • 1.Persons are constituted through social relations and communal practices, not as pre-social atomic individuals (Hegel, Taylor, MacIntyre).
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    • 2.If selfhood is irreducibly social, then 'primary authority' over one's body cannot be grounded in a notion of the self that precedes community claims.
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    • 3.Communal obligations—military service, vaccination mandates, organ conscription—can therefore be legitimate constraints, not grave indignities.
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    • 1.Paternalism is justified when a person's present choices systematically undermine their own future autonomy or rational agency (Mill's harm principle permits this).
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    • 2.If bodily self-determination can be exercised in ways that destroy the very capacity for autonomous choice, the claim to 'primary authority' becomes self-undermining.
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    • 3.A regime of constrained authority over the body—e.g., prohibiting severe self-harm—can better protect the deeper value of autonomy than absolute self-ownership.
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    A person is constituted by his body and his mind. They are parts or aspects of him. For that very reason, it is fitting that he have primary say over what may be done to them—not because such an arrangement best promotes overall human welfare, but because any arrangement that denied him that say would be a grave indignity. In giving him this authority, morality recognizes his existence as an individual with ends of his own—an independent being. Since that is what he is, he deserves this recognit
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