coerced treatment

[Marta Russell]

Well Wojtek walk in front of a car coming at you in traffic and see if
you don't have the "right" to get out of the way. Why you will move
out of the path of an oncoming car is because you know you will be
harmed if you stay put.  Similarly, a person can determine if a drug
is harming them or not and stop taking it as long as society is not
forcing them to take it by means of its institutions, one of them
being the medical institution. 
Marta

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> 
> Individuals (in the psychological sense, as individual egos) do not exist
> independently of the society that created them, let alone have any "right"
> to act other than that granted them by the society that created them. There
> are no individual rights - only privileges granted to individuals by
> society (various abuses notwithstanding).
> 
> wojtek
> 
> 

-- 
Marta Russell
author, Los Angeles, CA
http://disweb.org/
Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract
http://www.commoncouragepress.com/russell_ramps.html