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To: Hemingway's Ghost
Your body is not your property?

No, a human being can never be property, since property can be bought and sold and humans cannot not be bought and sold.

The logical conclusion to viewing your body as your property is slavery. Let's not go backwards in history.

Body property rights is not the best way to argue for drug legalization.

92 posted on 08/01/2007 11:12:11 AM PDT by Valpal1 ("I know the fittest have not survived when I watch Congress on CSPAN.")
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To: Valpal1
No, a human being can never be property, since property can be bought and sold and humans cannot not be bought and sold.

A human being can never be the property of someone else (i.e., slavery), but likewise, doesn't that mean a human being retains sovereignty over himself, or herself? And as that means that one has full and unlimited control over herself or himself, does that not, in essence, make one's body one's property?

If your body is not your own property, whose property is it? Since we're talking about secular things, "God" does not count as an answer.

94 posted on 08/01/2007 11:25:04 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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