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Not every possible action is a freedom. There is no right to own others in any cohesive ethical framework. (It would violate the principle that all humans ought
by burntsushi 13y ago
Not every possible action is a freedom. There is no right to own others in any cohesive ethical framework. (It would violate the principle that all humans ought to have the same rights.)
- dllthomas 13y agoWhy is that necessarily a principle that has to hold for an ethical framework to be "cohesive"?
- burntsushi 13y agoBecause it otherwise implies that one group of humans has different rights than another group of humans. I'm sure such a framework could be constructed, I just wouldn't call it cohesive.
- dllthomas 13y agoI think we need to unpack "cohesive" to meaningfully communicate further, here...