RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery.
December 11, 2012 at 6:05 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2012 at 6:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 11, 2012 at 5:53 pm)genkaus Wrote: Wouldn't the right to self-ownership be fundamental to the right to self-determination? It is because you own your life that you get to determine what to do with it - not the other way around.
Self determination comes from "self" , not ownership. Property rights derive from our concept of ownership(ownership is fundamental to property). Personhood (self) has primacy with regards to ownership (property) ....though we could always disagree. As I understand it, in any case, selling yourself as "property" would abrogate you right to self determinination -sure, you could argue that you exercized that right...but only once, if the contract of ownership were binding you would no longer have the right to self determination (and as you mentioned all means of compelling the unwilling slave are unacceptable)- all of this ignoring that "property" is not current a recognized status for a human being here, obviously. It's been a decade though, might make for some fun, trying to square away self determ with anti-slave.
(we'd probably end up in employees rights - love that one)
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