Your heart belongs to Barry 425
You think you own your body?
Well, you don’t.
How can you be so selfish, so acquisitive, so greedy as to want to claim permanent possession of it?
You have no moral claim to it whatsoever. Any more than to any other private property.
As Proudhon said: ‘Property is theft.’
Or at most a loan.
You’ve only got your body on loan from the community.
Not only must it be returned to common ownership after your death, but bits of it can be taken away from you while you’re still alive.
So says Obama’s ‘regulatory czar’, Cass Sunstein. He proposes the ‘routine removal’ of human organs from the dead, because ‘the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone’s permission.’
