(June 11, 2015 at 6:47 pm)Dystopia Wrote: I don't disagree but what right do you think would be violated with precision? Smoking weed is a possibility, but not exactly a human right, at least not as much as the right to live, to physical well being, etc. I'm skeptical of the claim because at the same time anti-smoking bigots are using human rights and public health as an excuse to restrict smoking and some are planning on banning it. So why does it go both ways? Well what would you say about someone who consents into slavery? Isn't that behaviour so self-destructive (and by definition means the death of your personhood) that we should put an active stop to it by making it illegal to be a slave?
Well, because we differ in our opinions about what people can do with their own bodies, we probably won't come to an agreement on this, but I'll address your points:
1. the right to live and physical well-being are both individuals' choices, IMO. I think assisted suicide should be legal, for example.
2. I think the idea of banning smoking altogether is ridiculous.
3. if a consenting adult of sound mind consents to slavery, I have no problem with it.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
