[extropy-chat] # What the #$?! are rights anyway?

[MB]

> Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:    .I would think 'right' to one's
> body as the most basic right that one can
> have. If one doesn't accept this, then everything else that people in the
>   transhuman community have discussed during the last 20 years as
> desirable for
>   their future collapses.


Yes - and I'd like to add the 'right' to one's mind. Nowadays things are
shifting towards trials and punishments for thoughts, you know. :(

Actually, I guess thoughts were always highly punishable. Sigh.

Regards,
MB