No generation possesses the moral authority to permanently bind the volitional agency of those who follow. Any political or legal order that denies future persons the capacity to revise, exit, or re-assent to its terms risks the same incoherence as an irrevocable contract or hereditary servitude.
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The case against "voluntary" indefinite slavery, hereditary slavery and chattel slavery -
Voluntary agreements are morally valid only so long as they preserve the future exercise of volition. Any agreement that authorizes the permanent negation of agency, whether through death, irreversible servitude, or hereditary obligation, is void by contradiction. Such an agreement destroys the very faculty that makes assent possible. Without that faculty, the agreement cannot remain morally binding.
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