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    An agreement to become the slave or serf of another is void. — Carmelics
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    An agreement to become the slave or serf of another is void.

    Rights & LibertySocial Contract
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    • 1.Equal freedom for all persons sets limits on the extent to which one may subject oneself to the will of others.
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    • 2.Slavery and serfdom constitute subjecting oneself entirely to the will of another.
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    • 1.Self-ownership entails the right to alienate any property one owns, including one's own labor and liberty, as Locke's framework implies.
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    • 2.A contract voluntarily entered under full information and without coercion is a legitimate exercise of autonomy, not a violation of it.
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    • 3.Prohibiting voluntary self-enslavement paternalistically overrides individual rational agency in a manner inconsistent with liberal principles.
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    • 1.Mill's harm principle permits any action that does not harm others, and voluntary self-subjugation primarily affects only the consenting party.
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    • 2.Voiding such agreements coercively imposes a conception of the good life on individuals who may rationally prefer security or belonging over autonomy.
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    Equal freedom for all sets limits to your subjecting yourself to the will of others: an agreement to become the slave or serf of another is void. Becoming utterly impoverished, so that one must beg or subject oneself to the will of another to survive, is also incompatible with equal freedom for all; so the state must establish some public policies to keep the poor from falling into a state of utter dependence on others.
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