Do we truly own ourselves?

Question

think about it, we did not make ourself, so why do we own ourselves (IE like we say its our body, and can do what we want with it). If, say we make a cake, it is our cake and the cake does not own itself. Well, that means we at least own our children... haha, serious though

because we created them first respondent, we don't own ourselves, but the things we create

Ron, possibly, the thought has crossed my mind multiple times

But there is no proof of God, or proof of him not existing, so, you only answered one possibility, not they actual question

Answer 1

We own something means, we exercise control over it up to certain extent subject to law and religion, for which we may get support of others.

Answer 2

Think again ! CHILDREN ? Not in the least. They got this body out the body that you got from ?
We are sort of trustees to use this body to the best of its capabilities, to the longest possible period, in doing so, shape the events of our life time in such a way as to provide the better opportunity to the inheritors, as well as to experience the unique opportunity to simultaneously experience various levels of consciousness, different dimensions of life , THAT ONLY A HUMAN FRAME can provide !
In some democratic countries, the house property ownership is "a right to use the property during the pleasure of nominal head of the state"... it is this provision that gives right to acquire a private property for public use. Again the nominal head holds the ultimate rights on behalf of the people ! This could be an indicative example, to give idea of owning ourselves !

Answer 3

Does nature compel our action? The notion of property extends to the whole quasi-economic process: the necessary and life-perpetuating condition of our modern existence. An individual owns by a relationship of power, manifested in an institutional array. These human instantiations of power-loci are historically contingent. Power today is no longer so simply found in individuals, but among groups, corporations, dynamic nets that interchange without a center. What owns even the owner seems to be the very force of process, ripping up the constancy of the world to generate labor and ever-greater accumulations of wealth.

Where can we act in this domain? There seems to be little room where instrumentality governs morality. Every answer is lucid or it requires more diligent interpretation-- but if it defies the instrumental, then it is clearly false on all counts. If we believe there is no place for one to act without motive, does this not disturb? We could take a Pascal's wager out, and instead of assume no such human agency exists, we could believe in freedom again, we could believe we own ourselves: the outcome ingratiates us, and provides the basis for world-building. It may all be a farce, but the prior seems ontologically defeatist; surely it precludes the possibility of making a space where you may own anything at all.

Answer 4

What is your "self"?
Are you thinking of the material ingredients of your body-most people do think they are their body!In this case,did you create these materials[earth-water-fire-ether]?No...so you don't own yourself!
In case you think you are soul,a spiritual spark,of the same divine quality,you still don't own it...but someone does:it's God,whose Names are multiple,but is the same one,all over the world.
As you got these materials that makes your body,you cannot dispose of it,in an illegal way,harming it:it's as if you get a house,and then yu burn it!You become homeless:you become a ghost!
This body is actually the highest form in evolution,and has got all ingredients necessary to go back to Godhead.Such subject is not taught at universities,only spiritual masters can deliver such information...

Answer 5

So what! In stead of worrying about ownership, which seems like a huge waste of time, ask yourself what you should be doing while we are here.

If you need to go there than consider that because we were given the gift of free thought and the ability to do wrong for our own benefit, wouldn't it be more significant if we then did some good for no specific reason?

There is a Reason and a Place for ever thing, which is the keystone for philosophic thought!

Answer 6

Own ourselves? How silly! No one owns anything, either individually or collectively. We are loaned the things we use in this life, but we own none of them. Remember man that thou are dust, and unto dust thou shalt return. What do we bring in? Nothing. We take the same with us when we go. lol

Answer 7

If you dont own you, then who does? yea u better step up and own yourself chica! Cuz think about this, that cake isnt living and breathing now is it?? Nope.
And u dont own your kids, they own themselves too, U didnt really create them! we can go into it about who DID create us, blah blah blah, but it doesnt even matter for the sake of this argument, simply because we all know we didnt create ourselves!

Answer 8

ur thoughts are all urs
how strong ur wills are
that's how much u own urself
many people willingly give up their ownership of themselves...
one thing we are given by the Creator is choice
and we choose how much of ourselves are OURS and only OURS
and u can't own another person if they don't let you
some people are raised to think that they don't have the right to own themselves :(

Answer 9

It's a matter of to what degree of posession you choose to acknowledge as owning yourself. As long as you have free will, I think you still own yourself, even if you are trapped in a situation you don't like. You're no longer yourself only when someone else forces his will on you, are you no longer your own.

Answer 10

we own our bodies we own ur minds but theese things fall short of the long that is eternity we do not own our souls only the creator(s) do and this cannot be change by man