X-Message-Number: 15979 From: "John de Rivaz" <> References: <> 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? Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15979