Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: re:replies to ??? on libertarianism Message-ID: <9800038@ea.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 10:11:00 EST Article-I.D.: ea.9800038 Posted: Mon Nov 5 10:11:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 09:29:32 EST References: <113@iwlc8.UUCP> Lines: 47 Nf-ID: #R:iwlc8:-11300:ea:9800038:000:2051 Nf-From: ea!mwm Nov 5 09:11:00 1984 > Mike, I don't think you have to be a statist to pass laws about what you > can do with your body. Do you favour being able to sell yourself into > slavery? I wouldn't want to sell myself into slavery, but I see no reason why I (or anyone else) should be allowed to stop somebody else who wanted to do so. Of course, that does present interesting problems - like who gets the compensation for the sale? :-). Something similar to selling yourself into slavery would be joining the US armed forces today. You sign a contract saying you will accept assignments, etc. given to you by the army, within certain limits, with no reasonable out (prison?). > What about "organlegging" - should only the rich have access to > kidney transplants? Only the rich currently have access to kidney transplants. Of course, many never see the money - it gets passed from the racketeer who took it from those who had it to the people involved in giving you a transplant. (half :-) I didn't say anything about what happens to your body after you cease to inhabit it, and I don't consider worrying about such to be in the purview of libertarianism. About transplanting your kidneys before you quit using your body, I certainly hope that you don't think people should be forced to give up their kidneys until they are through with them! > We can argue about where to draw the line; whether you > have the right to pollute yourself with the chemical of your choice, or > sell (perhaps rent is the better term) your body for sexual purposes, but > there is a line somewhere. There is? If I have the right to end my own life (and I claim I do), then it doesn't seem to make sense to worry about anything else I can do to/with my body. > Remember, you don't HAVE a body, you ARE a body. You may be a body, but I *have* one. I hope to be uploaded to something more durable in the future (and off we go into another net.philosophy debate.) > Russ Herman > {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!aesat!rwh "Protect your software at all costs; the rest is meat."