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It has little to do with an "inviolable right to self ownership" -- the overwhelming majority of the world already have that. You can eat until your jaw breaks
by someotherperson 3y ago
It has little to do with an "inviolable right to self ownership" -- the overwhelming majority of the world already have that. You can eat until your jaw breaks while dedicating your life to proving a flat Earth, you can go base jumping off a cliff, or you can tattoo obscenities on your forehead. Or all of it at the same time. And it's perfectly acceptable as an action of autonomy and self-ownership.
Euthanasia, or suicide, is instead a problem of diminished capacity and whether or not suicide could ever be a decision of someone who is of sound mind. Much like we don't let babies walk into traffic, believe that a 9 year old is able to consent or allow severely mentally handicapped people the ability to refuse surgery -- having legal frameworks that don't encourage these things isn't about stripping away the right to self-ownership.