----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Choate" <ravage@ssz.com> To: <cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:14 PM Subject: CDR: Re: Speech May Not Be Free, but It's Refundable
You have a right to do whatever you want, UNTIL it impacts another. Then you stop, or they defend themselves.
Actually that's not true. Take for example the nearly nationwide ban on committing suicide. This clearly only impacts a single person directly, and is by it's very act clearly consensual. But it has even been proposed that attempted suicide should be tried as attempted murder 1. Oddly enough this would in some areas make attempted suicide punishable by death. There are other examples of similar, but not as ludicrous, legal situations where the only person being impacted is the person acting, but it's still illegal. Joe