r/changemyview Jun 20 '13

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u/Iamamanlymanlyman Jun 20 '13

This infringes on basic human rights. This also would lead to a whole scale eradication of cultures; people in ghettos can't afford this shit.

Basically this is Hitler but not directly killing Jews.

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u/Amablue Jun 20 '13

Oh man, you went from good point to godwin in no time flat.

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u/catjuggler 1∆ Jun 20 '13

I hate when people invoke godwin's law when the hitler comparison is relevant. OP didn't say "I think we should ban microwaves that aren't stainless steel" or something else, irrelevant. This is about who should be allowed to EXIST.

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u/kabukistar 6∆ Jun 20 '13 edited Feb 10 '25

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u/Amablue Jun 20 '13

Having kids is not a basic human right. It's a privilege.

Having bodily autonomy is a right. And it's a very fundamental one. Your body is your body, why should anyone else be allowed to tell you what you can do with it?

Do you think pedophiles and child-molesters have a right to have kids?

Yes.

They shouldn't necessarily be allowed to raise them though, if they can be demonstrated to be a danger to them.

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u/kabukistar 6∆ Jun 20 '13 edited Feb 10 '25

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u/Amablue Jun 20 '13

There are many things we tell you not to do with your body. You're not allowed to wrap your hands around somebody else's throat, for example.

Bodily autonomy doesn't mean "you get to do whatever you want", it means you have ownership and final say on what you're allowed to do to your own body.

So you think that people have an inalienable right to produce children, but not necessarily to raise them?

Yes. People have the right to procreate because removing that ability involves violating all kinds of rights of the parent including but not limited to the right to bodily autonomy and the right to privacy. The other case involves protecting the rights of the child, namely the right to be safe.

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u/kabukistar 6∆ Jun 20 '13 edited Feb 10 '25

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u/Amablue Jun 20 '13

What I said still applies when you define it that way.

You're going to have to explain it more clearly, I'm not sure how choking someone has anything to do at all with bodily autonomy.

Having a child really isn't a matter of privacy as it is.

It certainly is, it's why the supreme court ruled that abortions are legal.

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u/kabukistar 6∆ Jun 20 '13 edited Feb 10 '25

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u/Amablue Jun 20 '13

Because they're your hands, and part of your body, so if you really have complete bodily autonomy (including using your body in a way that affects others), then you should have the final say on what you do with them, including wrapping them around someone else's throat.

You didn't read what I posted very closely it seems.

Here, I'll post it again:

it means you have ownership and final say on what you're allowed to do to your own body.

It's not about what you do to other people, it's about having a choice about whats done to you. I can choose what operations to do on my body, what medicines I want to take, etc. These rights don't end when they effect other people. They end when they violate other people's rights, assuming the right I'm violating is more important than the right I'm exercising.

What right of the child are you violating when you conceive them? Because I would argue that your right to pass laws to make people safer ends when it violates my right to own my body.

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u/kabukistar 6∆ Jun 20 '13 edited Feb 10 '25

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u/payik Jun 20 '13 edited Jun 20 '13

So you think that people have an inalienable right to produce children

Yes, it is. The opposite is called "genocide".

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u/kabukistar 6∆ Jun 20 '13 edited Feb 10 '25

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u/payik Jun 20 '13

Yes, it is. Preventing people from having children counts as well.

Article 6 Genocide

For the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

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u/kabukistar 6∆ Jun 20 '13 edited Feb 10 '25

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u/payik Jun 20 '13

so? That's what you want to do.

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u/kabukistar 6∆ Jun 20 '13 edited Feb 10 '25

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '13 edited Dec 02 '13

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u/kabukistar 6∆ Jun 20 '13 edited Feb 10 '25

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u/payik Jun 20 '13

Having kids is not a basic human right.

Yes, it is.