X-Message-Number: 15979
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: People are not your property
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 10:34:33 +0100

> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote
>
> > PEOPLE ARE NOT YOUR PROPERTY.  They can NEVER be your
> > property.  Everyone owns himself, herself, or herself
> > and can never be owned by anyone else.

Those who have been reading the thread "compulsory post mortem dissection"
on sci.cryonics and elsewhere will have seen many messages from
pathologists, lawyers and their admirers saying that "you do not own your
own body" according to law - the government does. This results in the
possibility of people acting on behalf of the government preventing a
cryopreservation, without even listening to any evidence as to the efficacy
of cryonics, without being guilty of anything in law.

The government, of course, is merely a gang of people. Therefore people do
own people.

--
Sincerely, John de Rivaz
my homepage links to Longevity Report, Fractal Report, music, Inventors'
report, an autobio and various other projects:
http://www.geocities.com/longevityrpt
http://www.autopsychoice.com - should you be able to chose autopsy?

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