Re: _The Windup Girl_

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<ce5fe82f-06dd-445c-8b7f-1360ca44ac6d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Quadibloc <jsavard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 23, 8:24 pm, Mike Ash <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Most certainly not. You have a right to life, but you have no right to
genetic propagation.

I have a right to kill in self defense to prevent myself from being
killed... or castrated.

The castration is just because there's a general idea that people are
allowed to defend themselves from mutilation. It's the same for
preventing yourself from losing an eye or a hand. Nothing to do with
reproduction per se.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon
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