Anything that affects your senses ... is your business. If you want to kill yourself through nicotine or cyanide, it's your business.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The author argues that bodily autonomy extends to all sensory impacts, including self-harm.
- In plain terms
- You own your body and what you put in it.
- What can you take from it?
- Bodily autonomy includes the right to harm yourself.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Where should society draw the line on personal choice?
Another view
It ignores the social consequences of individual harm.
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