Amia Srinivasan: belief

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…What’s the role of self-ownership in your moral framework? On one hand, I have deep respect for a notion to which we might be gesturing when we talk about self-ownership in terms of the sovereignty of the body, and maybe a certain set of rights about disposing of one’s body and labor as one chooses. I don’t love the talk of self-ownership. I think that is to import a property model, which doesn’t totally get our relationship to the self quite right. If you want to know more, you can ask me. But you could envision it as a kind of inviolable Kantian autonomy, doesn’t have to be Lockean ownership. But I think what I’m getting at is, once you buy into enough self-ownership, say, to have that as a first line of defense against slavery or restrictions on what you can do with your body, how do you square that with a certain skepticism about consent models? What stops you from moving from self-ownership to consent?…

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