Jim Sharkey wrote:
>
> Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> >
> > Jim Sharkey wrote:
> > >
> > > I am so sick of laws protecting people from themselves.
> > >
> > Would you support people selling themselves as slaves?
> > Or people selling essencial body parts, like a cornea?
> >
>
> Interesting question, but really those are straw man arguments.
> However, in the spirit of your question:
>
> If someone felt that blinding himself had a price tag, and his
> blindness would not be a burden on society, I don't see why not.
If the individual lived in the US and were not legally blind before
selling the cornea, and became legally blind as a result of selling the
cornea, the US would bear a burden, due to the way the tax code is
written -- if you're legally blind, you get an extra deduction. So
you'd end up paying less in taxes, and the remainder of the taxpayers
would be subsidizing you. So yeah, you'd end up being at least a minor
burden on society, at least in the US. :P
Julia
whose extra extension for filing taxes runs out tomorrow, so guess what
we've been doing since the Dallas/St. Louis game ended?
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