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by ardy42 1949 days ago
>> Who decides that someone is a responsible and healthy adult?

> You do. It's not up to someone to decide, you're responsible for your own body and your own decisions to improve/harm it.

That's obviously not that black and white. If it was, then breathalyzer interlocks wouldn't be a thing, for instance.
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capableweb 1949 days ago
IID/BAIIDs that gets installed in vehicles are often installed to protect other peoples life, not your own.

I was thinking in the context of "Should I be able to use drugs", which we normally leave up to the individual to decide, except for _those_ drugs that we don't leave up to the individual to peruse on their own.

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ardy42 1949 days ago
> IID/BAIIDs that gets installed in vehicles are often installed to protect other peoples life, not your own.

Yeah, but that's just an example. If you were about to make a suicide attempt, you could be involuntarily committed, and the only person's life being protected would be your own.

The point that I was trying to get at was that black and white individualist statements like:

>>> You do. It's not up to someone to decide, you're responsible for your own body and your own decisions to improve/harm it.

...paper over some important complexities of real life. There are many, many cases where people have responsibility for others (and I'm not just talking about legal responsibility, even though my examples all intersected with the law in some way).

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foogazi 1949 days ago
breathalyzer interlocks are not there for heroin or for your body
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