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non-westeners don't think that they own their bodies?


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Not really, and I doubt most people would put it in those terms. This shouldn't be a surprise, but I guess when interest in humanity is replaced by interest in theory...

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Ask any schmoe on the street in the world or any nomadic tribesman for that matter, "who owns your body?" and they will look at you like you are crazy and say "I do." It is only spoiled wealthy western college kids or their Marxist professors who could seriously consider statements of the form "people do not own themselves."

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I'm not trying to imply that people don't think they have freedom or that their body is theirs or whatever, but:

a) you clearly need to talk to more religious people
b) Marxists are way, way, way more likely to think that a person owns his own body than your average schmoe
c) People generally don't think about it in property rights terms (my point)