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To: betty boop
Who owns my body? ME OR THE GOVERNMENT?
-DA55-


That's an absolutely stupid question, Danconia55. Only someone who has been ideologically brainwashed would even think to ask a question like that.



Another thoughtful, deliberative position betty?

265 posted on 06/29/2003 9:20:59 PM PDT by tpaine (Really, I'm trying to be a 'decent human being', but me flesh is weakn)
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To: tpaine; DAnconia55; unspun
Another thoughtful, deliberative position betty?

I can't have a thoughtful, deliberative position WRT total nonsense. What ontological sense does it make to say I "own" my body? Or that I "own" my mind, or my soul? Or my nose, my ears, my hands, etc., etc.? A human being is an organic, dynamic composite of all these necessary things. These are not things we "have," in the sense that I have a house, or a car, or a career, or a cat; these are things that make us what we are, things that pertain to our essential being. What sense does it make to say that we "own" what we, in fact, ARE? The question is idiotic, because it presupposes a total abstraction and reduction of what a human life is, and then sets up "relations" between the self and the body that do not exist in nature.

330 posted on 06/30/2003 6:34:25 AM PDT by betty boop (We can have either human dignity or unfettered liberty, but not both. -- Dean Clancy)
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