02-20-2006, 01:44 AM
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The sovereignity over one's own body is very much a human right, privacy is a human right, and therefor this is a UN concern.
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We do not agree.
Personal sovereignty is lent to the state via social contract. The amount of personal sovereignty retained by the individual varies from people to people and over time and circumstance. We believe that a nation's sovereignty is derived from it's people. The extent to which a people wish to invest sovereignty in their nation will vary from nation to nation. The UN historically supports national self determination exepting flagrant abuses of national agression and human rights.
A government could be said to be violating the human rights of it's citizens by not meeting their needs or preventing them from reasonably meeting their own needs. Recreational drug is use a want and not need. Human wants are unlimited. We do not belive that the UN's proper role is to fulfill unlimited human wants.
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In short: what I want to put in my body is my, and only my, concern. Not the government's. If I want to get drunk, I get drunk. If I want to get stoned, I get stoned. As long as I don't bother other people, stay out of my business.
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Perhaps, but that is an issue that should be decided on a nation by nation basis, in our opinion.
The sovereignity over one's own body is very much a human right, privacy is a human right, and therefor this is a UN concern.
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We do not agree.
Personal sovereignty is lent to the state via social contract. The amount of personal sovereignty retained by the individual varies from people to people and over time and circumstance. We believe that a nation's sovereignty is derived from it's people. The extent to which a people wish to invest sovereignty in their nation will vary from nation to nation. The UN historically supports national self determination exepting flagrant abuses of national agression and human rights.
A government could be said to be violating the human rights of it's citizens by not meeting their needs or preventing them from reasonably meeting their own needs. Recreational drug is use a want and not need. Human wants are unlimited. We do not belive that the UN's proper role is to fulfill unlimited human wants.
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In short: what I want to put in my body is my, and only my, concern. Not the government's. If I want to get drunk, I get drunk. If I want to get stoned, I get stoned. As long as I don't bother other people, stay out of my business.
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Perhaps, but that is an issue that should be decided on a nation by nation basis, in our opinion.