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> support for any person to have autonomy of their body in whichever way they see fit

For the second time, slavery by definition means depriving someone of autonomy. This directly contradicts what the comment supports. The comment directly opposes slavery, because it deprives people of autonomy.

This kind of false equivalence between consensual sex and slavery is going to take this conversation nowhere.

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> For the second time, slavery by definition means depriving someone of autonomy. This directly contradicts what the comment supports. The comment directly opposes slavery, because it deprives people of autonomy.

Read the rest of the thread. That commenter already admitted they support legalizing slavery.

Supporting absolute autonomy clearly means supporting selling yourself into slavery. How could it not? Part of autonomy is choosing when and for what duration to surrender it.

Generally a slave is considered, by law, to be property and does not have most of the rights a free person has. You seem to suggest that any contract where a person sells his services to another person, institute or company, is slavery. Are most of us slaves since we sell our time to an employer? Are soldiers slaves? 'Selling' yourself on any terms you choose, should be possible, but unless you become property and lose your rights, it's not slavery and calling it that just diminishes the word.

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