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Is bodily autonomy a recognized right in any sense? Is there a society that actually respects the right to bodily autonomy legally or in practice - meaning, usi
by suslik 3y ago
Is bodily autonomy a recognized right in any sense? Is there a society that actually respects the right to bodily autonomy legally or in practice - meaning, using any drugs at will, the right to suicide, to agree to being eaten by a friendly cannibal, and so on? I don't think there is, and nobody is pushing for it.
- defrost 3y agoThe Okapa District, pre missionary, pre kiaps .. you were good to go until the mid 1950s at least .. and then colonizers spread their values. > to agree to being eaten by a friendly cannibal They had standards though, you'd have to work to gain the respect for anyone to want to eat you as a mortuary ritual. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FK5N_ObFeQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FK5N_ObFeQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore_people
- boxed 3y agoThere's two parts though: 1. the right to not have someone else do stuff to your body 2. your right to do anything to it Number 1 is pretty well established. Number 2 less so, and I think that comes down to us as a society noticing that many people can't be trusted with full access here. Ask any clean addict and they will tell you what a colossal mistake it was to start using the drug in the first place. The regulation of what you can do with your own body is, in my opinion, a regulation to protect future you from present you. Because we all know what the present you has worse impulse control and judgement than future you would like.