Ardainian Right on Nostr: npub167kns…lhr40 npub1z06la…ny3q9 blockbot Self-ownership isn't a moral ...

npub167knsj5l2s3vx98yecmm3kkqpf22wmk463jewt3r04xhnh72prqsmlhr40 (npub167k…hr40) npub1z06laf0rhhwzd7h0y303hfp6e7r29e8p6vyl2yr7nv5uefdgtcfslny3q9 (npub1z06…y3q9) blockbot (npub12xa…036m) Self-ownership isn't a moral principle, it's a practical fact. Of course, your practical ability to exercise self-ownership may be restricted by outside forces, but you are still the only one(for now at least) capable of making your body act of its own accord. When faced with the reality of external coercion, you can either submit or defy it. Hobbes says in most cases it's optimal to submit, as insofar as the sovereign permits you to live and reproduce, it is evolutionarily preferable to submit even at the cost of some of the fruits of your labor. Once the state goes beyond this to the point of threatening your existence, there is no longer any incentive to obey and so it becomes rational for the subjects to revolt against the sovereign as best they are able. Self-ownership as a biological reality doesn't imply freedom from external control as a social reality.