That what one can legally destroy is one's property. It follows that to prevent the suicide of someone who owns themselves would be a violation of their property rights. 1/?
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If it is legal for parents to prevent their toddlers from running onto a busy highway it follows that the toddlers do not own themselves. 2/?
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If someone has property rights on something they have these rights until they voluntarily transfer them to someone else. It follows that if toddlers don't own themselves they also don't automatically own themselves as they become adults. 3/3
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I have no confidence that there are no fatal flaws in this argument but it is funny that as a libertarian I never thought about why it is that people own themselves by default.
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Replying to @emareaf
Children are owned by a trust managed by their parents until they turn 18.
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with the government as beneficiary and keeping a reversionary interest
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