The only sticky point I would say is mental illness. Some people arguably need help but cannot vocalize or speak to that. Do we as a society have some responsibility to help someone in pain or inflicting pain on themselves even if they do not want such help? What if the reason they are inflicting such pain is delusional or based on the influence of someone else? Poor information and such. Of course mental illness is a slippery slope. I would say in public there needs to be limits. In private? Go to it....except of course what if children are involved? Does someone who loves you have the right to stop extreme injury or such action you take against yourself? No simple answers.

I don't have many limits at all, but I draw the line at extreme mutilation. I've seen people do things to themselves that make scenes from horror movies look tame, and if I had anything to say about what they did, I would not allow them to do that. I would allow them to commit suicide, but I would not allow them to cut their arm open to show people their still living arteries. I'm pretty damn liberal, but I'm not that liberal. No.

For the most part i don't believe in victimless crime. However there's alway a limit. Public sex/masturbation is probly one of the exceptions I have in mind. Or anything that fall in the line of public endangerment.

I support your thinking... to the degree that you aren’t damaging your body/mind in some way that “I” will later on have to pay for it. Such as: over-indulging in alcohol until you become a diabetic - and can’t affort to pay for your own necessary medical care.

I support a woman’s right to choose. I would probably not go through with an abortion, if I were a woman. I would in no way infringe on your right on what to do with your body, or anyone else.

As long as it does not hurt others and I am pro abortion. In the area of pursuit of happiness I believe that every person should have the right to live a life without pain and if that requires providing health insurane to everyone so be it. One cannot be happy ill.

my mom always said "my right to swing my arm ends at your nose." implied: short of your nose, my arm is free. some people see abortion as an exception here because of the involvement of another entity, but a first-trimester fetus is not a person. it's a clump of cells with no functioning nerve endings and no sentience. that means technically it is a parasite (and yes, if you want the baby, then it's a baby; it's a baby even when it's a twinkle in your eye, and an emotional attachment is a good thing, and good for you, but that's your decision for yourself and cannot be made for anyone else -- and that's the general "you," not you, jen, specifically) and a woman has a right to defend herself against a parasite. that is the only exception i can think of that SOME people might cite, but it is not one that i count. i still think of a pregnant woman, at least in the first trimester, as ONE person, and my mom's saying still holds. for myself, i can think of no exceptions to her saying.

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p.s. i see someone has mentioned animals. of course the "you" in the saying includes animals. i am not, however, a vegetarian. but even an animal killed for food doesn't need to be tortured.

By hurting anybody do you mean only humans? I think there could be an argument that torture of intelligent animals should not be allowed. What about “property rights” do you believe in those? There are many compromises people must make to be accepted into a tribe or nation, and the nations have divvied up all the available property so we have to compromise. I used to think it “should” be different, but now I mostly accept it.

Agree 100%

Unless you're a , none I can think of.
I also thing a person should have a right to choose not to live.

Inflicting self harm might not be a great thing, but everything else you said is true.

I agree totally. My basic rules are; don't hurt anybody, try not to break anything, and have a good time.

Nope

You should have the right to do whatever you want with your body so long as you're not hurting anybody who is not yourself.

The interpretation of what constitutes harm to someone else due to your actions is wherein lies the usual rub I'd guess.

I agree that you should be legally allowed to do anything that doesn't harm another. I think there are many immoral things that can be done that should be legal.

What kinds of things do you have in mind? I'm afraid to answer because my imagination doesn't usually run to weird stuff.

You've been ringing the devil's doorbell again JenBerstein ? ?

No victim, no crime.