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    Distinctness of persons requires the capacity to will thi... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→If a person cannot will anything opposed to what another person wills, that person's selfhood or identity as a separate person is endangered.

    Distinctness of persons requires the capacity to will things independently of what others will.

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    Is this sufficient to ensure distinctness of persons, though? It is not clear that it is. If I somehow cannot will anything that is opposed to what some other person wills, my selfhood or identity as a separate person appears endangered. And if the impossibility is not merely contingent but logical or metaphysical, the threat to my independent identity seems even greater.

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