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To: The FRugitive
Post #105:

Question for thread libertarians--

We all know that bums sell their bodies to medical schools for medical experimentation after they die. Medical schools could not teach without this.

So, let's say I'm a libertarian and I believe that the only immoral act is the initiation of force, fraud or coercion. Furthermore, I am not opposed to any behavior that is not voluntarily contracted.

So, I open up a restaurant that buys peoples' bodies to reprocess as food in my restaurant, called the Gunga Diner. Note--people voluntarily contract to give me their bodies after they die of natural causes (no force initiated) and my customers freely agree to eat human flesh. For a libertarian, there should be no problem with this right?

How about it libertarians? Voluntarily contracted cannibalism ok with you guys?

There you have it...what do you say?

318 posted on 03/19/2003 12:08:56 PM PST by HumanaeVitae
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To: HumanaeVitae
So, let's say I'm a libertarian and I believe that the only immoral act is the initiation of force, fraud or coercion.

More false witness, Hit your knees moral man.

321 posted on 03/19/2003 12:11:01 PM PST by Protagoras
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To: HumanaeVitae
"...the only immoral act..."

There is a finite, but unbounded, number of immoral acts.

There are a strictly limited number of criminal offences, punishable by law.
336 posted on 03/19/2003 12:19:31 PM PST by headsonpikes ("They seek him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere!")
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To: HumanaeVitae
Well that's rediculous. I don't know why people come up with these bizarre examples to try to argue against freedom.

Further, even if homosexuality were outlawed it is a completely unenforceable law and would do nothing but further erode respect for the law.

This un-American craziness is going to do nothing to further conservatism or a moral society and is just going to push people away from voteing for conservatives.

The gov't just flat out has no business in someone's bedroom.

HOW DO YOU SUGGEST THEY ENFORCE THIS LAW?
340 posted on 03/19/2003 12:20:06 PM PST by The FRugitive
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