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    Full self-ownership theory must be rejected. — Carmelics
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    Full self-ownership theory must be rejected.

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    • 1.Full self-ownership entails that bodily integrity violations are lexically prior to welfare considerations, generating absolute side-constraints (Nozick).
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    • 2.Absolute side-constraints cannot accommodate threshold cases where infinitesimal harms aggregate into serious injustice without principled resolution.
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    • 3.A rights theory that cannot adjudicate between trivial and severe boundary crossings lacks the action-guiding capacity essential to any viable moral framework.
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    • 1.G.A. Cohen showed that full self-ownership is compatible with severe material deprivation, meaning formal bodily sovereignty fails to secure substantive freedom.
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    • 2.A liberty-grounding theory that permits conditions under which agents cannot exercise their owned capacities undermines its own foundational justification.
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    • 1.Full self-ownership condemns as wrongful even very minor infringements of the personal sphere, such as tiny bits of pollution falling upon an unconsenting person.
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    • 2.Prohibiting all acts that can lead to minor infringements poses an unacceptable limit to liberty.
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    • 3.From the perspective of self-ownership theory, there is no principled difference between minor infringements and major infringements of the personal sphere.
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    A fourth concern about the counter-intuitive nature of full self-ownership points out its restrictive implications. Full self-ownership might seem to condemn as wrongful even very minor infringements of the personal sphere, such as when tiny bits of pollution fall upon an unconsenting person. Prohibiting all acts that can lead to such minor infringements poses an unacceptable limit to our liberty. But from the point of view of self-ownership, there is no principled difference between minor infri
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