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    It is not the case that Full self-ownership permits voluntary enslavement.

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    • 1.Self-ownership is a continuing relation between a self and its body, not a transferable commodity that can be alienated without destroying the owning subject.
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    • 2.An agreement that extinguishes the very agency required to validate ongoing consent cannot be binding under any coherent theory of contract.
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    • 3.Kant's Formula of Humanity prohibits treating persons merely as means, making voluntary self-commodification self-defeating as a rights-grounded act.
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    • 1.J.S. Mill argued that liberty cannot coherently be used to alienate liberty itself, since the purpose of freedom is ongoing self-determination, not a single irrevocable transaction.
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    • 2.A contract requiring permanent, unconditional obedience lacks the reciprocal enforceability that distinguishes binding agreements from acts of surrender.
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    • 1.Under full self-ownership, people have the right to control uses of their persons.
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    • 2.People also have the right to transfer their rights over their persons to others through sale or gift.
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