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10 Jul 2021, 7:15 pm

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Just like your insistence on comparing money to flesh.

That doesn't appear in any of my posts. Go read them. If you can't be bothered to do that before shooting your mouth off, you should be more careful with your use of pejoratives like "moronic." Glass houses and all...



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10 Jul 2021, 8:18 pm

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Just like your insistence on comparing money to flesh.

That doesn't appear in any of my posts. Go read them. If you can't be bothered to do that before shooting your mouth off, you should be more careful with your use of pejoratives like "moronic." Glass houses and all...


We were discussing bodily autonomy. You came in blathering about taxes.

Taxes don't violate you're bodily autonomy as money isn't your body.

Clear? Good.


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10 Jul 2021, 8:29 pm

You may feel you’re getting screwed by taxes but it’s nothing the same.


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11 Jul 2021, 1:35 am

the people who are so worried about taxes have not a clue how they are being used by people who are above taxation.



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11 Jul 2021, 2:08 am

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After reading more about it, it seems we are both wrong.

Legal personhood depends on the context. For example, in the context of contract law, children and the mentally-incapacitated are not legal persons.

But in the context of homicide, children are definitely legal persons. And some states in the U.S even extend the concept of legal personhood to fetuses for homicide. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foeticide ... ted_States)


I don't think I am wrong. In the context of homicide they are not legal persons because they still can't sign contracts or sue.

They are "legally speaking, persons".
They are not, however, "legal persons".
Even more confusing, "legal personhood" could correctly refer to either state.


From Dyschkant, A. Legal Personhood: How We Are Getting It Wrong. Illinois Law Review. Volume 2015, p. 2075 (http://www.illinoislawreview.org/wp-con ... chkant.pdf)

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Children are generally presumed to be legal persons. The Supreme Court has directly addressed the question of personhood for children when analyzing whether children can bring forward a Fourteenth Amendment claim. For example, in Levy v. Louisiana, the Court overturned a Louisiana statute declaring illegitimate children “nonpersons”:
“We start from the premise that illegitimate children are not ‘nonpersons.’ They are humans, live, and have their being. They are clearly ‘persons’ within the meaning of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” The justification for including illegitimate children as legal persons is almost immediately obvious to Justice Douglas
and follows directly from the fact that children are living human beings who “have their being.” The Supreme Court also held that the Fourteenth Amendment protects children as well as adults. This clearly places children in the category of legal persons according to the constitutional meaning.



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12 Jul 2021, 4:23 pm

XFilesGeek wrote:
Clear?

That you're in a non-monogamous relationship with the truth, yes.

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We were discussing bodily autonomy.

When the OP raised the question of whether governments curtail it to support safety nets.

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You came in blathering...

My response was three sentences long and focused exclusively on what he said.

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...about taxes.

No, it focused squarely on the ability of people to work toward their basic needs and never mentioned taxes directly.



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12 Jul 2021, 7:40 pm

Uh-huh. And it's already been addressed.

Taxes don't violate bodily autonomy as money isn't your body. Several people have elaborated on that point, but, for whatever the reason, you keep banging on about how taxation is somehow related to abortion. If you want to talk about invalid comparisons, maybe scrub them from your own arguments before critiquing mine.

Now, as it stands, I'm at work and I don't have time to keep re-explaining things to you, so I'm just going to wish you well on your trip bouncing around the galaxy. Ta.


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