autonomy mostly refers to the freedom of your mind. It’s a freedom from coercion in making choices. Freedom itself concerns itself more with the ability to act in the “external” physical world.
Now that makes it sound like only things like mind control and enforcing thought crimes can be restrictions of autonomy. Being under surveillance doesn’t interfere with someone’s ability to make rational decisions.
Now that makes it sound like only things like mind control and enforcing thought crimes can be restrictions of autonomy. Being under surveillance doesn’t interfere with someone’s ability to make rational decisions.