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    Prohibiting all acts that can lead to minor infringements... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Full self-ownership theory must be rejected.

    Prohibiting all acts that can lead to minor infringements poses an unacceptable limit to liberty.

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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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