Reply To: How we come to own ourselves

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visu21
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Someone making decisions on your behalf does not imply they own you. The caretaker of a mentally ill person does not have the right to physically abuse them. As a matter of convention, communities have entrusted the people you listed to those who will tend to hold their best interests at heart. It’s an imperfect solution, of course, but there’s no morally superior alternative.