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<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Well that's definitional, but can you cede this self control<br>
irrevocably (ie: without the ability to take it back against the<br>
wishes of the entity to whom you ceded it)?<br></blockquote><div><br><br>Just to take this a little further, if rights derive from self-ownership, is there<br>any reason under that assumption that I shouldn't be able to sell the right<br>
to kill, butcher, and consume my body? <br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.."<br>
- William S. Burroughs <br>