| No, self-ownership is not objectively axiomatic. When you say murder is wrong and self-determination is an inherent right, you're still thinking within the intersubjective frame of reference of your culture. Sure, in most cultures, murder is wrong, but that doesn't mean it's innately wrong.
Nonetheless, we'll always be thinking in terms of our way of life and will thus say that we have all these rights, but that's not what this thread is about. I could easily object to that self-ownership pseudo-axiom by saying that I'm merely a puppet in the universe. I don't necessarily agree with that, but we have no absolute, indisputable axioms.
But what's to stop the manic tide,
The suicide of our own pride? The Complex |