Simple: your right to bodily autonomy and consent already does come before other people's right to life, that is why you cannot be forced donate blood or organs against your consent, even if someone else will die without it, because your right to consent over who can or cannot use your body is not conditional on the right to life of others. You have no obligation to give someone your bodily consent, even if their life is at stake, because your right to bodily autonomy comes above other people's right to life, including a fetus's.
Secondly, government is not the enemy of anarchism, hierarchy is. A "government" is merely whatever means of decision-making a society uses to make their group decisions, which can be incredibly hierarchical (like an autocracy), or non-hierarchical (like a direct democracy), or anywhere in-between. Anarchism, as an umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of ideologies, is not "anti-government", it is simply "anti-hierarchy". And, as such, my belief against guns are actually predicated on my belief in a non-hierarchical system. I do not think guns should exist in the first place, nor do i think police or militaries should exist either, but since they do right now, I believe in both public safety AND abolishing hierarchy. Hopefully that cleared those up for you...
@Patriot-#1776Constitution5mos5MO
Your donating blood illustration does not work. When you refuse to donate blood, someone dies because of your inaction. When you murder your own child, someone dies directly as the result of your action. These are two completely different scenarios. I believe in natural, God-given rights, not human rights. Sometimes they are called "negative rights". A right to life means no one can murder you, a right to liberty means no one can enslave you, and a right to property means no one can steal from you, etc. You, however, seem to believe in "positive rights" were instead of hav… Read more
@VulcanMan6 5mos5MO
Firstly, my blood donation example was not meant to be a comparison to abortion, it was simply another real-world example of a right that you have (consent and bodily autonomy) that is held above other people's right to life, which was the sole point I was making. There is no perfect analogy to abortion anyway, so I ultimately find it easier to just argue in support of abortion directly. As such, if you agree that 1) you have the sole right to decide who can or cannot use your body, at any time, for any or no reason, and you also agree that 2) no one has the right to use your body against your consent, then there is no logical reason why you should be opposed to "pro-choice" without blatantly omitting one of these premises. That is literally all this comes down to: can another person use your body against your consent? If not (which should be the only correct response), then a fetus does notRead more
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
If the donating blood illustration was not intended to be a comparison to abortion it's pretty ridiculous that you used it as an argument for abortion. I do not believe that abortion has anything to do with a woman's rights to use her own body (how many ties have I said this now) because it is scientifically proven that from the moment of conception the baby and the mother are two separate bodies. I agree that no one should use your body without your consent, but I also agree that no one has a right to kill another human being. Therefore I must evaluate which right is more important… Read more
@VulcanMan6 4mos4MO
If the donating blood illustration was not intended to be a comparison to abortion it's pretty ridiculous that you used it as an argument for abortion.
I didn't. As I directly stated, I was using that example to argue in support of my point that there are a plethora of situations in which one of your rights are held above another person's right to live. It was not, as I stated, a comparison to abortion, it was merely a tangential argument regarding the autonomy of individual rights. I was not directly talking about abortion during that specific argument, I was talking about righ… Read more