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    Treating self-ownership as analogous to ownership in gene... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The indeterminacy of ownership in positive law poses no objection to self-ownership theory

    Treating self-ownership as analogous to ownership in general reveals a more fruitful way of theorizing rights over persons

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    Such a move would also avoid a final kind of objection, this one more theoretical in nature. This objection holds that, upon inspection, the idea of self-ownership is neither as simple nor as clear-cut as it initially appeared. One version of this objection points to the indeterminacy of the idea of ownership. Positive law recognizes a wide variety of ownership arrangements, including ones that consist of very different kinds of rights than the self-ownership theorist defends. There may be no cl

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