As long as I do not harm another human being or otherwise deprive them by stealing, vandalizing, etc. Why is it anyone's business what I do with my life/body? What gives the government, or society, the right to tell me what I can('t) read, eat, or do with my life/body?
2007-08-19 19:52:36 · 9 answers · asked by Always Curious 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Zukovsky - you can (are qualified) to speak for >all< of society? I know many people that don't care a fig if others contribute or not -- look at the government and welfare recipients...the governement obviously doesn't care if they contribute.
2007-08-20 19:20:43 · update #1
Thats what I'm talkin about man!!! You get a gold star for this question. This is why i think marijuana should be legal. As long i'm in the privacy of my own home, i should be able to toke up if i so please! The same with cigarettes. My life motto is "harm none and do as you will" and i intend to live my life that way.
2007-08-19 19:59:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Society has the right to tell you what you can('t) do with your life/body because...
Wow good question.
Society cares, and they might not want you to harm yourself.
Remember, positive or negative, your actions do affect others.
Not only that, but society wants you to be a contributor.
Anyways, congrats! That was the toughest question (Philosophical or otherwise) I've answered yet. (I've answered 125 including this.)
2007-08-19 19:58:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Exactly. . . this is what Thomas Jefferson was talking about in his Declaration . . . what the rest of those guys were explaining in the preamble to the Constitution . . . .
. . . those European guys came to this continent and saw that the native Americans were free--no god or country or other entity 'owned' them . . . writers like Hobbes and Locke expressed this separation between the political and the religious in English words that these second sons of the nobility could understand . . .
. . . morality and religion are not related. Most humans come to know, with maturity, what they waht done to them and that they shouldn't do otherwise to anyone else.
2007-08-19 20:00:28 · answer #3 · answered by nora22000 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
belongs 2 God.
2007-08-19 20:01:27 · answer #4 · answered by Ms Medieval 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
emmm naaaaaw!
2007-08-19 20:04:24 · answer #5 · answered by Randolph 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yourself
2007-08-19 19:57:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God
2007-08-19 20:58:34 · answer #7 · answered by rosey 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God
2007-08-19 19:59:41 · answer #8 · answered by ▒Яenée▒ 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God
2007-08-19 19:56:11 · answer #9 · answered by Mo 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋