"You OWN your body..."
I do not agree. I am not property. Property can be owned. It can be acquired, transferred, taxed, and sold at the option of the owner.
I am sovereign and have free agency. Sovereignty cannot be purchased or sold, but is an inherent aspect of a human being. Therefore human beings cannot be property, cannot be slaves, and I am free. My body is also an inherent aspect of me, and it can neither be property.
Slavery is the ownership of human beings, and it is not lawful. I am not my slave. I am my king and I rule me absolutely.
I do not own me. No one else can own me, or any aspect of me either. I am sovereign, because that is an aspect of me, just like my body, mine by virtue of my natural existence, and neither aspect of me can be sold, transferred, acquired, or owned as can property.
I am free and sovereign, and so are all humanity.
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I agree with most of what you say but on the matter of the body I define the term 'own' as meaning 'To have power or mastery over'.
Nobody controls my body and in fact I would would say that my body is the only thing I really do own and have control over. The body is the vehicle from which we experience the world. We have thoughts, feelings and take actions based on these experiences. For the time we inhabit them, they are our gateway to spiritual growth (or not).
You wrote, "I do not own me. No one else can own me, or aspect of me either". I do not consider you to be your body alone but you do have control and agency over your body.
If 'you' exist and your body is the only way 'you' have to make an impact in the world, to say you don't own it when it has been given to you and you have been given free will to do what you please with it, doesn't make sense to me.
I am probably misunderstanding you but I do like these sorts of discussions.
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I do have sole agency, and that cannot be sold, transferred, etc... Since property universally can be sold and transferred, that agency over myself is not proprietary, i.e. I am not property.
It is sovereignty, not property, that is pertinent to that aspect of me.
The similarity of the two words regarding agency is potentially confusing, but like air and water which both flow, sovereignty and ownership are intrinsically different. The big difference is that property can be sold, and sovereignty cannot.
I am not property because I am sovereign, and this means that slavery cannot be lawful under any just legal system or theory. Slavery is currently legal in the USA because of the missdefinition of people as their own property under the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, and so this is not merely pedantry, but a very meaningful difference.
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