| The contract example was just to demonstrate the law absolutely allows punishment for betraying responsibility, not that you sign a literal contract. If you have sex, that should be considered voluntarily agreement to the consequences. AFAIK, you can sue people over matters where no contract exists - societal laws aren't all literal contracts. > then probably we can assume that then penalise non-medical late-term abortions? > This might be a genetic birth defect (which is your responsibility for having sex by your count because it's one of the possible outcomes you are assumed to accept) but acting in good faith, there's no formal responsibility to pass on good genes. An interesting concept, but moot in modern society. Also, it doesn't follow that "donating a kidney" fixes the issue in the same way "not aborting" would. > or just beating the kid In which case you would obviously be punished. > you still wouldn't be obliged to provide your kidney as a replacement My original comments agree this is true, but also state it doesn't mean you can't be punished/penalised. > the law should never require of you the piece of your body Then can I state your doctors can never retrieve/tamper with a piece of someone else's body, even if it exists inside your womb? > However you'll be fully responsible for putting me there, if it was illegal And I where a jailer who put you in there legally, but illegally left you there to rot? The legality of the first act would not change my initial responsibility to let you out. |