Law in Contemporary Society

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MeronWerknehFirstEssay 4 - 09 Jun 2016 - Main.EbenMoglen
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  Hopefully, during this absence, your gaze—once glued to the flashing lights—will turn inward and yield a truly intensive introspection where you emerge feeling like your actually know yourself (and maybe even like yourself). Knowing who you are is inseparable from knowing what you want, necessary in the process of giving genuine consent. Without this, you will not be able to distinguish actual rights from illusory rights. The right to have, from the right to chase. Making conscious choices requires consciousness, which is bound with reflection and genuine self-awareness. To surrender this would be to surrender your agency, which is, whether conscious of it or not, an indispensable part of what makes us not only individuals, but human.
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This is clearer, and more closely reasoned, thereby much improved. But the draft still feels to me much of process and little of performance. Is the conclusion really that "making conscious choices requires consciousness" or that this is "bound with ... genuine self-awareness"? It seems like rather more mechanism than the outcome required.

 

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