Am I getting this right? Because the car is a socially constructed object, it has the right to run one down?
Anyone care to comment about the "philosophy" of that?
Peter Kosenko
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:06:08 -0800
>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
>