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    Self-ownership is a continuing relation between a self an... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Full self-ownership permits voluntary enslavement.

    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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    • 1.Personal identity requires continuous bodily integration; severing this connection dissolves the unified self that could own anything.
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    • 2.Inalienability protects persons from self-destruction; permitting complete self-sale logically permits voluntary slavery and self-annihilation.
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    • 3.Ownership implies external control by another; but a self cannot exist separately from its body to grant such control without ceasing to exist.
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    • 1.We routinely alienate bodily capacities (labor, organ donation, blood donation) without destroying ourselves, contradicting the continuity claim.
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    • 2.Prohibiting self-sale in the name of protecting persons paternalistically overrides autonomous choice and individual determination of what harms them.
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    • 3.The claim conflates metaphysical identity with normative ownership; a self might exist through bodily change while still transferring specific rights.
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