Autonomy
If it is chosen, then it is autonomy. Autonomy is an outcome with two sub-outcomes of association (if parties agree) or disassociation (if at least one party disagrees).
Autonomy-Association
Association is community or unity and such things only occur due to diversity (individualism). Only Individuals can determine some equivalence between disparate goods or disparate acts. After all, individuals themselves are disparate humans and if value were not in the eye of the Individual, how else could one Individual exchange a book for money of another individual? One values the book more than the money, and the other vice versa. This difference between them is what unites them in a brief moment of exchange. Thus, the economic exchange between individuals does not unite them despite their differences, but unites them because of their differences.
Association is diversity + reciprocity. It is community/unity. It is chosen.
Autonomy-Disassociation
Disassociation is also chosen.
Even the failed business agreement (disassociation) is reciprocity as one party permits the other to disassociate. It is the act of reciprocity, of minimum respect which results in Autonomy. It is the thought that one is private among others which results in the act of reciprocity.
Privacy → Reciprocity → Autonomy
(Thought) → (Act) → (Outcome)
More specifically, there are two outcomes of privacy-reciprocity
Privacy → Reciprocity → Association (Unity or Community or Exchange)
Privacy → Reciprocity → Disassociation (failed exchange)
But what if one person does not wish another to be autonomous, does not respect another enough to allow the other to disassociate? In that case, disassociation becomes security (or rebellion).
Security
To be secure is an outcome where one is safe from being enslaved by another. To be enslaved is to not have the ability to disassociate. Therefore, security is autonomy taken.
Outcomes either happen or are made to happen by the Individual. So long as the Individual wants to have power over himself, he will seek to make outcomes happen in his favor or hinder negative outcomes from occurring. Otherwise, he will allow others to choose for him, and they will do so in their own interests rather than his.
Security consists of the ability to conceal oneself (anonymity), conceal one’s actions (privacy), and/or to be able to defend oneself. There are many tools and tactics to be secure, if the Individual decides to be.
Defense, anonymity, and privacy (security!) is autonomy taken.
Part II: Security vs Protection