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    It is not the case that A person has primary authority over what may be done to his body and mind

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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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    • 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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