Property Rights and
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The document proposes establishing property rights over one's own body to support human self-directed evolution without needing permission from other entities. It presents 5 potential test cases of applying such property rights and discusses some of the issues and implications that would arise from legally recognizing self-ownership of one's body. The document is intended to facilitate discussion on proactively taking a stance that individuals have full control and ownership over their own bodies.
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Property Rights and
- 38. I invite your opinions of what might be all the derivatives and deliverables of self-ownership.
Hinweis der Redaktion
- My proposition is that a proactive stance should be taken so that what those who wish to move human evolution along can do so without diverting time, and resources to ask line-item permission from any other human or social, cultural, theistic or governmental jurisdiction or construct. There are a wide range of implications enabled by successful application of “Property Rights” to support human self-directed evolution in all of its manifest forms. I am going to some use language which may bring forth some strong discussion….Please in advance let me make apology to those whose sensitivity I may offend.
- I had a hard time deciding on a term to cover self-ownership in a way that applies to humans , transhumans , posthumans or any type of cybernetic or digital construct and especially to medicine in all its forms preventative, regenerative, crisis-management and palliative. What I did was find a search term which seemed to bring up scholarly papers covering the derivatives of self-ownership of one’s body.
- Religions in large measure attempt to justify the taking away of the capacity to make many decisions about our bodies through interpretations of scripture writings. Property Rights are removed from the individual and in the extreme tolerate “honor killing” of children and family members by some religious cultures. Capital punishment imposes upon individuals the condition that if they destroy the rights of others to enjoy their own bodies they will in turn be stripped of this ownership by the state or some third party society agrees to delegate this function to. The killing of “un believers” in the middle ages or “Witches” at Salem are all instances where self-ownership was stripped by others without justification by or permission of the person whose body was being damaged.
- Be it women as second-class citizens, slavery of one class or nationality by another, or apartheid , or treatment of gay/lesbian/bi-trans-sexuals or the treatment of jewish persons by the German 3 rd Reich, we have a history overflowing with person’s debasing the rights of others to enjoy their most prized possession their own bodies without just cause. Perhaps laws against rape also detail how one person may not interfere with the enjoyment or use by another person of their own body.
- The history of medicine delegating doctors, regulators and other third parties to interfere with the chemicals, therapies, devices a person may direct to have control over to control their own body functions has changed but is still does essentially the same thing…third parties exhibit control over the use you wish to make of your own body. In balance the citizen of today does have more capacity to take back this control than ever before…however the cost in time , effort and money reduces the degree to which we actually control our body when dealing with healthcare issues.
- Academic literature has collected a lot of valuable material to enrich our discussion.
- There does appear to be a logic track to justify tightly-held personal ownership rights as part of an already accepted system of rights.
- Legally minded persons do recognize that property rights may be used by individuals to back their perceived rights to modify their bodies. Yes something as demure as the right for someone to wear to work and in public places tattoos, display cosmetically reshaped bodies as a method of self-expression is a discussion area where general agreement in much of the world stands behind the freedom to choose how to modify your own body…..irregardless of prior, present or future intent for personal uses of such modifications… If in due course this also enables one to create personal gain , wealth, power and such , this “commodification” would be supported by the application of “Property Rights”.
- While we all think first of our own jurisdictions , the global jurisdiction is the final goal of any crystallization of a Human Right.
- Those who oppose the idea of self directed modification to drive directed evolution of everything from your “Omics” to various levels of organelle substitution or addition to cybernetic modifications to transloading or uploading into a digital substrate with or without subsequent downloading to a cybernetic or organic construct may use quite a variety of arguments and forums to sway social, cultural and political constructs to crystallize opposing views into “LAWS”. Property Rights may be the simplest method for individuals to decouple their activity from the force or effect of those who would for a wide range of motives choose to derail the aforementioned activities.
- What we have had for most of recorded history is a system which controls individuals in a manner which has all the defining aspects of ownership. True self-ownership can have some immediate short term consequences….YES, disruptive in some aspects but ABSOLUTELY EMPOWERING in other aspects.
- This statement may indeed cover the issue…..humans with sufficient skill and sophistication to apply knowledge to “controlled material” AKA one’s own body may have an already established justification to have “property rights” to this body.
- To begin discussion I present 5 token test situations covering a variety of scenarios.
- This is by no means an exhaustive list of issues related to our discussion of Property Rights over your body, but is meant to facilitate the detailing of such a list.
- Making “Disruptive Change” constructive is the task.
- I really believe that simple recognition of the ownership of one’s body by the resident consciousness may by itself have one of those 10^9<10 types of impacts on the world as we know it. This recognition then marginalizes the arguments to and against the other means to this end. The bottom line is that when you control the discussion you are in much better than if you are responding to the arguments of others, who by setting the area for discussion thereby lessening your chances of winning such an argument.
- I invite your opinions of what all might be the derivatives of self-ownership.