We can imagine agents who would have the moral status to demand contractualist justification but still lack an especially strong claim against interference. In contrast, agents who can conceive of their lives in a temporally unified way have a distinctive, strong interest in non-interference. This contrast helps illuminate the moral importance of self-authorship. The upshot is that ordinary persons have a more general and less variable right against interference than is often supposed. Self-authorship can also help appreciate the sense in which the value of persons may be characterized as ‘self-existent’.

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自著作权和反对干扰的主张

我们可以想象具有道德地位要求契约主义辩护的代理人，但仍然缺乏反对干扰的特别强烈的主张。相比之下，能够以时间统一的方式设想他们的生活的代理人对不干涉有着独特的、强烈的兴趣。这种对比有助于阐明自我创作的道德重要性。结果是，普通人拥有比通常想象的更普遍和更少变数的抗干扰权利。自创也有助于理解人的价值可能被描述为“自我存在”的意义。