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- From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
- Subject: Re: control
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.172015.5197@cs.yale.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:20:15 GMT
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- In article <1k93mdINN6ie@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan28.164836.4742@cs.yale.edu> rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
- >>All right. I see where we disagree. I don't see the actual restriction
- >>as making one less than human but the legality of the restriction. I.e.
- >>I am no more human when the government owns me but doesn't tell me what
- >>to do (e.g. when I've registered for the draft, but not been drafted)
- >>as when it is telling me what to do (ten-hut) . If you don't hold this
- >>perspective, I can see how we would disagree.
- >I'm not sure we do disagree. I don't grant that the government has the
- >right to 'own me' even if they don't do anything with that ownership,
- >and I think the government is dead wrong to draft males to defend the
- >country. So, I think we agree on that part. The government doens't
- >have any business 'owning' people.
- Right, I meant about the implications of that wrt personhood.
- -Ekr
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