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He doesn't address the idea of self-ownership directly.
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But the effect, the moral weight of his argument
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for the difference principle is,
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maybe we don't own ourselves in that thoroughgoing sense after all.
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Now, he says, this doesn't mean that the state is an owner in me,
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in the sense that it can simply commandeer my life.
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Because remember, the first principle
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we would agree to behind the veil of ignorance,
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is the principle of equal basic liberties.
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Freedom of speech, religious liberty,
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freedom of conscience and the like.
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So the only respect