Submitted by BernardJOrtcutt t3_y0fjnr in philosophy
Sea_Personality8559 t1_isca4ou wrote
Reply to comment by jgoose56 in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | October 10, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt
Of my head
Social contract and private property
There are already situations where you forfeit or place your life in jeopardy.
Interestingly adding politics into it brings alot of other stuff with it.
Abortion - right to life.
Imprisonment - white torture - social isolation torture.
Historical property rights - the ten feet of history.
Etc
Still it roughly revolves around whether your body and mind are ironclad your private property.
Social contract would seem to indicate that there are situations where your ironclad private property is traded or borrowed against with other property.
Limiting this trade and possible forfeiture entails other limits - already suicide has gone through a cycle of illegal to legal - so the prime importance on human life seems to be fluid.
What I'm getting at is
Because we can vote it in - the only thing that is necessary is that we also have the ability to vote it out - as rights etc seem to change like the wind.
That is - we give the state power - but they should only ever be borrowers - not owners.
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