Anyone who argues has already presupposed exclusive control over body and mind. You cannot make a case while mind-controlled, and you cannot push back against a claim if your speech is dictated.

Self-ownership extends into property through original appropriation, and the Non-Aggression Principle follows. Coerced surveillance falls inside the same frame: a regime that strips cognitive privacy has destroyed the conditions under which its subjects could be parties to any normative argument.

Chapter 4: The Argumentation Axiom and Self-Ownershipby Max
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