> It's not an assertion, it's a statement of fact and is backed by
> libertarian philosophy, biology, and common sense.
COOL!
Now ... prove it instead of just saying it.
> Let me know if this looks familiar to you...
>
> "We hold that all individuals have the right to exercise SOLE DOMINION
> over their own lives, and have the right to live in whatever manner
> they choose, so long as they do not forcibly interfere with the equal
> right of others to live in whatever manner they choose."
The only thing that inclusion of a statement in the Libertarian
Party's SOP or platform proves is that a percentage of delegates (2/3)
to the LP's national convention endorsed that statement at one time,
and that another percentage (50%+1 for platform planks, 87.5% for the
SOP) has not since repudiated it.
A statement that an organization's membership believes X is not
evidence that X is true.
Furthermore, inclusion in the LP's SOP or platform indicates nothing
more than that one relatively small, relatively young organization out
of the hundreds or thousands of organizations which comprise the
libertarian movement has endorsed that statement.
> To suggest that any organism living within a person has any
> rights, especially rights over and above the host in which they are
> living, is to deny sole dominion, and self-ownership.
OK, here's a good starting point for you. You could start by proving
that "self-ownership" is different in kind from every other kind of
ownership ... unless you're also asserting that no organism in your
yard or in your car has any rights, etc.
> Self-ownership means we own ourselves. It means that no other person,
> group of people, government, animal, vegetable, or mineral has any
> claim to our body at all or to the fruits of our labor.
Close enough (I'll assume, unless you say otherwise, that you do
recognize such claims when they are based on the voluntary
agreement/consent of the person in question).
> Here's the part where you falsely claim I didn't prove anything.
Well, you proved that you don't understand the concept of proof, but
at least you're beginning to try. That's a start.
Tom Knapp
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