[secretagent]

Agreed, IMO, to believe otherwise would negate the premise of self ownership. In other words, if one starts with the premise that we own our bodies (which seems self evident), then it follows that only we can choose what we do with it. For others to place these restrictions puts some sort of claim of ownership over our bodies, which runs contrary to our conscious experiences.

Of course some do reject the premise that we own our own bodies. Some claim that God owns us, since he created us.

At such an axiomatic level, I suppose it would be hard to make headway.

[traviskicks]

If God created us than we must answer to God, not government, for our actions. This sort of goes along with the founding of the United States, taking away the ‘divine right of kings’ as was the case in europe, where it was said God ruled through the kings giving them near infinite power over the people. In the US it was said you were ‘king of your castle’, and God worked directly through you, cutting out the king as middle man. I think many opponents of liberty misplace a desire for liberty with perverse desires for drugs and so forth, a lot of it also has to do with the strength that one gains when one falls.