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I ran into my own tissue concoction talking back to me recently. The
other day my teen daughter decided not to clean her room and stated
that she never asked to be born and that she resents all the stuff we
make her do (which is almost nothing but she sees it otherwise). Of
course she can claim self-ownership, which means I can't harm her. Nor
would I want to. But I was quick to point out that if I so desired, I
could still make her work for me in the office without paying her
minimum wage. Does this mean our children qualify as legal slaves? <br>
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Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Lee Corbin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com"><lcorbin@rawbw.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> The principle is the same. If I concoct some tissue in my own lab
that turns out to be sentient, well, then, IMO it's mine and I can
do with it what I please. Who are you and the goons to come
into my place and stop me?
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### Here we still disagree, Lee, after all these years :)
If your concoction emails me that you didn't ask it for permission to
use it and it resents your infringement on its self-ownership, I might
consider offering it protection services, assuming it were willing to
pay for the goons.
We'll see who's goons are tougher.
Rafal
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