[mugs99]

You do not own yourself.

You need go no further, that statement speaks volumes!
If I do not own myself, I am property. Who owns me? The federal government? The state goverment? You?
The self ownership argument stands.
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[muawiyah]

Who owns the patent on your DNA?

[RightWhale]

If I do not own myself, I am property.

We ought to distinguish between possession and property. Property is something acknowledged by the State. There is a Title or Deed. Something can be possessed without being property. Treating a person as property is slavery, whether the State, or the whipboss, or yourself do it. Slavery is illegal, in this country, to a degree.