Peter Kosenko wrote:
>
> Wotjek:
>
> 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
> >>