A person who has lost own freedom cannot wager another’s

Evidence

“Did my husband lose HIMSELF first, or did he lose ME first? For if he lost himself first, then he was already a slave when he bet me — and a slave owns nothing, and cannot bet what he does not own. So how can I have been lost?” — , A Year of World Stories, 7027

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes feminist legal theory about self-ownership and the impossibility of transferring what you do not hold. — connects to: A giver of what he does not own will take what you own — , A Year of World Stories, 944; Ownership of wealth is real only when one can part with it freely — , A Year of World Stories, 12081; Self-certainty requires recognition from the other (+4 more)
• SEED: Angle: how a mythic courtroom scene models modern questioning of coerced contracts and self-possession.

Related

• Proving one’s alienation requires freely recognizing the Other’s freedom (similarity 0.88)

Broader Connections

• Ownership of wealth is real only when one can part with it freely #expands (0.75) — , A Year of World Stories, 12081
• Self-certainty requires recognition from the other #expands (0.55)