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We’ll Need Property Rights in a World of Gene-Edited Humans | Mises Wire

Posted by M. C. on December 20, 2018

One of the pillars of Libertarianism is you own yourself.

https://mises.org/wire/well-need-property-rights-world-gene-edited-humans

…Of course, these are important issues, and luckily for us, we already have the framework of private property rights and individual sovereignty that would work just fine. If we are unable to start from a premise that each individual owns his or her own body, that seems like a major problem to me. If each individual does not own his own body, who does? The issue of children also raises questions that have been dealt with for thousands of years — babies need constant care, children need guidance as they are growing up, and at some point, they become adults, with their own natural rights and bodily ownership. All of this has been covered before by many, including Murray Rothbard (in chapter 7) and Josiah Warren. And, it should be stated that, in this particular case, parental consent was apparently obtained before any of this happened… Read the rest of this entry »

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