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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: bodily autonomy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.003555.2314@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1jhnskINN964@gap.caltech.edu> <C15n6u.A0t@ddsw1.mcs.com> <1jl12jINNl7o@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:35:55 GMT
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- In article <1jl12jINNl7o@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
- >
- >>let's take this "bodily autonomy" thing for a minute, and see where it leads
- >>us....
- >
- >>Would you agree that one's mind, and its output, is under a person's control
- >>as bodily autonomy? That is, that the output of a mind is something which a
- >>person has absolute control over?
- >
- >>Would you agree that the output of one's muscles and other body processes is
- >>also under a person's control as bodily autonomy. That is, the physical
- >>exertion (excretion, etc) of a person is something which a person should
- >>have absolute control over?
- >
- >The mind itself, yes. The body itself, yes. The output, no.
- >This runs into issues of property rights, with which I am largely unfamiliar.
-
- Is it a _general_ tendency of yours to trample all over things which you don't
- understand?
-
- Learn what an "arbitrary deprivation of property" is, Michal, or an "excessive
- fine", and how those things violate our Constitution...
-
- - Kevin
-