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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Divine ownership need not entail the same control-rights as human ownership; God might hold a unique kind of ownership compatible with creature autonomy.
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    • 2.Constituting autonomous agents could be seen as an exercise of ownership prerogative, not a limitation of it—like a property owner freely imposing restrictions.
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    • 3.Aquinas himself held that divine omniscience and human free will coexist without contradiction, suggesting ownership-autonomy tension is resolvable.
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    • 1.Ownership rights typically include control and disposition; granting autonomy to owned entities directly contradicts fundamental ownership prerogatives.
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    • 2.If God both owns creation and intentionally constituted beings with genuine libertarian free will, God voluntarily limited His own authority over those beings.
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    • 3.Autonomy and ownership are logically incompatible: you cannot simultaneously possess something and have that thing possess itself as an independent agent.
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