02-21-2006, 03:27 PM
The Dominion of BigRedCatFeb 20 2006, 12:44 AM Quote:
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. [/quote]
I disagree. You're born free. After that, other people and governments take some freedom away, but they can only do so if the individual consents in that, or other people's freedom needs to be protected. There is no social contract, just mutual agreeing.
Quote: 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.[/quote]
Not unlimited, but it should also not be limited too much. Quite aside from all the other advantages of legal drugs (less crime, less use, more responsible use, more opportunities for education), it's fundamentally about freedom. My body is my responsibility. If I want to use drugs, why should a government have any business with that? What makes a government more suitable to decide about that than me myself?
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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.[/quote]
How can a nation decide about that? It should be decided on a person-to-person basis. A government needs only be concerned when it's causing negative side-effects for other people (eg drink-driving).
National government is the wrong level to decide on this. UN level too, but this resolution puts it out of UN and national hands and gives it to the people.
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. [/quote]
I disagree. You're born free. After that, other people and governments take some freedom away, but they can only do so if the individual consents in that, or other people's freedom needs to be protected. There is no social contract, just mutual agreeing.
Quote: 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.[/quote]
Not unlimited, but it should also not be limited too much. Quite aside from all the other advantages of legal drugs (less crime, less use, more responsible use, more opportunities for education), it's fundamentally about freedom. My body is my responsibility. If I want to use drugs, why should a government have any business with that? What makes a government more suitable to decide about that than me myself?
Quote: Quote:
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.[/quote]
How can a nation decide about that? It should be decided on a person-to-person basis. A government needs only be concerned when it's causing negative side-effects for other people (eg drink-driving).
National government is the wrong level to decide on this. UN level too, but this resolution puts it out of UN and national hands and gives it to the people.