 This diagnosis dovetails with Schofield on obligations to oneself in the future. Schofield thinks there is something dangerous about actions that “jeopardize a person’s ability to make use of her practical powers later in life by harming or altering her body in the present” (2021, 167), since it one can reasonably demand from their own future perspective that such harms not be inflicted. Schofield illustrates with an analogy: