> Dr Farbod Akhlaghi, a moral philosopher at Christ’s College, argues that everyone has a right to “self authorship”, so must make decisions about transformativ

> Dr Farbod Akhlaghi, a moral philosopher at Christ’s College, argues that everyone has a right to “self authorship”, so must make decisions about transformative experiences for themselves. I'm only commenting on the news article's interpretation of the paper, which may be wrong, and not the paper itself. There's nothing about giving advice that violates the right to "self-authorship". I can vehemently urge somebody to move/quit a job/marry somebody else/have a babby/join a convent/buy a house/cheat on their wife/sell their car/etc and nothing about my speech would ever prevent the other person from having their own choice. If the argument is that attempting persuasion violates individual rights, then freedom of speech would be impossible.