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by mrweiner 619 days ago
A grocery store is not a person. And besides that, laws and regulations exist specifically to restrict what people are able to do. Nobody is entirely sovereign. Sure, if you discover an island and you decide to live there, maybe you’re sovereign and can act however you want. But we live in a collective. That’s just the way it works.
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These rights are inalienable. They are not derived by permission from a collective.
Which rights? The right to build a tall fence in your yard? To install electrical in a house however you please? Expose your genitals in public?
The right of self ownership. You are not entitled to control the flesh of another person.