2024 US Presidential Election

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Then why am I not free to sell my spare organs?

Boru

I suspect governments are less interested in freedom than control.

I suspect you’re right.

Boru

[Nanny]

It's perhaps most basic of rights - right to decide about one own body. Nobody who is against it could seriously claim to be pro anything approaching freedom.

Then why am I not free to sell my spare organs?

Boru

You are free to do so. I don't advise it.

What are these spare organs you have spawned? Gills? Tentacles?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Then why am I not free to sell my spare organs?

Boru

You are free to do so. I don't advise it.

What are these spare organs you have spawned? Gills? Tentacles?

Spare kidney, spare lung, more liver lobes than I need.

Boru

[Jackalope]

Then why am I not free to sell my spare organs?

Boru

I suspect governments are less interested in freedom than control.

I suppose that depends on what one means by 'freedom', and I'd probably word it that entrenched power structures are most motivated by remaining entrenched. The rest is window dressing.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I suspect governments are less interested in freedom than control.

I suppose that depends on what one means by 'freedom', and I'd probably word it that entrenched power structures are most motivated by remaining entrenched.  The rest is window dressing.

Yeah, it's six of one, half-dozen of another. Remaining entrenched equates to retaining control. Simply asserting the gov't's right to make such decisions in itself means that they are arguing for the gov't retention of control of very personal decisions.