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[quote] Animals are incapable of reasoning, therefore, they have no rights. The only time people have rights is because they wish to solve arguements non-violently. If a horse wanders onto my land and I want to remove it, I cannot reason with a horse. It follows that I must remove it through violent means. [/quote] Exactly. Animals are incapable of
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[quote] No, but this power, in this case, implies ownership. Although someone else may claim authority or ownership over me this would be unethical because it would be based on arbitrary and subjective reason. They might say they own me because I have brown hair. But I could just as easily claim ownership over them because they have blonde hair. This
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[quote] You have ownership over something when you can show an objective link with the object and yourself. So I own myself because I can move my body [/quote] I quote Autolykos' signature... Non parit potestas ipsius auctoritatem. Power does not amount to authority. I'm not really worried about proving it. I just assume that whatever is moral
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Do people always have self-ownership? When and how do they acquire it? Do parents ever own their children? These are the questions I have been wrestling with lately, and the problems I perceive arising from the various possibilities. Maybe you can help me come up with some solutions for a free society. Is there a single age of sudden self-ownership
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Why on Earth is a doctor allowed to do it? Is that for when they start putting barcodes on babies?
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[quote] If only government was just a business....then it might be run a little bit better. [/quote] Oh it's a business alright... You're just erroneously assuming that you're the customer, and not the product.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift
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These assholes? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Federal_Protective_Service_Vehicle.jpeg Is there a Federally-owned or leased building on or adjacent to the campus? Otherwise, it might have been one of these... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Special_Security_Events Do you think there was such a thing happening on or near campus at the time
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Is that a genuine hand-crafted, carbon-fiber, dual-cam, compound bow made by the yeomen of the shire? Are the arrows hewn from mammoth bone?
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True, but apparently it's virtually useless in the littoral zone. [quote] On the continental shelf, it's a different story: passive sonar has never been effective in the littoral (coastal) environment. Shallow water, contorted rocky coastlines, and changes in salinity near estuaries and lagoons have been a source of frustration for anti-submarine