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    Under full self-ownership, people have the right to contr... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Full self-ownership permits voluntary enslavement.

    Under full self-ownership, people have the right to control uses of their persons.

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    A third worry is that full self-ownership may permit voluntary enslavement. Just as people have, on this view, the right to control uses of their persons, they also have the right to transfer their rights over their persons to others, for example through sale or git. However, this is controversial among libertarians, some of whom deny that these kinds of transfers are possible because it’s morally impossible for others to control one’s will (Rothbard 1982; Barnett 1998, pp. 78–82), because such

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