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4. 29 So, for example, Rousseau argues that a choice to become a slave should not be respected precisely because it is irrational or unacceptably foolish: Now, since, in the relations between men, the worst that can happen to someone is for him to see himself at the discretion of someone else, would it not have been contrary to good sense to begin by surrendering into the hands of a leader the only things for whose preservation they needed his help? What equivalent could he have offered them for the concession of so fine a right?. Rousseau J. J., “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality,” in Cress D. A., trans., Basic Political Writings (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1987): At 72. Steinberg, in fact, makes this argument, stating that “no rational person would sign” a consent form that informed a potential subject that the ethics governing the protocol deviated from the ethics of medical care. Steinberg, supra note 6, at 27.