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    It is not the case that G.A. Cohen's internal critique shows self-ownership is compatible with collective ownership of external resources, which can fund welfare without violating bodily autonomy.

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    • 1.Taxing labor income effectively coerces bodily effort, making the body-resources distinction morally irrelevant to autonomy violations.
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    • 2.If I self-own, collective ownership of resources I created through my labor alienates the fruits of my body's work, contradicting self-ownership.
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    • 3.Cohen's position merely relocates disagreement: it assumes external resources are justly collective, but libertarians deny this foundational premise.
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    • 1.Self-ownership permits restricting others' use of one's body without restricting collective decisions about external resource distribution.
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    • 2.Progressive taxation on external resources funds welfare without coercing bodily labor, thus respecting bodily autonomy while enabling redistribution.
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    • 3.Cohen's distinction between owning bodies and owning natural resources shows libertarian conflation of these categories is conceptually confused.
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