coerced treatment

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Tue Jun 12 18:06:08 PDT 2001


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



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