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To: ballistic
You are not entitled to someone else's body parts.

True enough. You also don't have to save someone who is drowning.

I don't think we have a right to use force of law to compel her to give her marrow. I do think that her decision has consequences, one of which is that she if publicly scorned.

She is not entitled to be free of scorn, either.

144 posted on 03/26/2007 4:47:55 PM PDT by TN4Liberty (Sixty percent of all people understand statistics. The other half are clueless.)
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To: TN4Liberty

Exactly! In a free society, people are entitled to make all sorts of selfish decisions. But everyone around them is also free to judge those decisions. Some decisions are deserving of scorn.


158 posted on 03/26/2007 5:01:02 PM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts soooo good!)
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To: TN4Liberty
She is not entitled to be free of scorn, either.

Exactly.
168 posted on 03/26/2007 5:07:40 PM PDT by beezdotcom
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