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    It is not the case that 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.Respecting autonomy may require permitting self-regarding choices about one's body/labor, even if others find those choices degrading.
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    • 2.Distinguishing 'mere means' from legitimate transaction requires substantive judgment about which exchanges violate dignity—not obviously self-evident.
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    • 3.Consensual commodification of aspects of oneself needn't negate treating one's whole self as an end; discrete transactions can preserve overall dignity.
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    • 1.The Formula of Humanity requires treating persons as ends-in-themselves, whose rational agency demands respect as intrinsically valuable.
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    • 2.Voluntary self-commodification treats one's own humanity as a mere instrument for others' purposes, violating this fundamental constraint.
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    • 3.No one can consistently waive the moral status that grounds their right to autonomy without undermining the very capacity to exercise rights.
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