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kpete

(72,060 posts) Sat Apr 13, 2024, 10:26 AM Apr 13

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If you don't own yourself absolutely, you own nothing. [View all]

If you don't accept that bodily autonomy is an essential unconditional liberty, it's a waste of time talking to you at all. No other liberties survive without that one, more fundamental than property rights: if you don't own yourself absolutely, you own nothing.

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If you don't own yourself absolutely, you own nothing. [View all] kpete Apr 13 OP

You'll own nothing and you'll be happy Barry Markson Apr 13 #1

(...or else....) lastlib Apr 13 #4

Fact check: The World Economic Forum does not have a stated goal to have people own nothing by 2030 Celerity Apr 13 #6

If women do not own themselves what does that make them? Irish_Dem Apr 13 #2

Livestock. Pets. Toys. Male service units. Breeding stock. CousinIT Apr 13 #5

All of the above. Irish_Dem Apr 13 #7

A Trojan Horse Uncle Joe Apr 13 #13

Powerful Statement, right there. OAITW r.2.0 Apr 13 #3

Yep, & if they can take away your choice to have an abortion they can take away your choice to not have one, too. CrispyQ Apr 13 #14

Republicans are taking us back to the days where women were legal chattel, the personal property of men dlk Apr 13 #8

There's no point in any other right without that one nuxvomica Apr 13 #9

He is correct but perhaps extending this analysis Voltaire2 Apr 13 #10

If you think you 'own' your property, just don't pay your property taxes and find out you really don't The Mouth Apr 13 #11

Property rights! surfered Apr 13 #12

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