Twilight Imperium wrote:Arkolon wrote:Render acceptable, either morally, legally, or both.
Obviously if something is legalized, it's henceforth legally acceptable. Morally is a stickier matter.
Let's bring this back a bit. What does it mean to "own" something?
According to Wikipedia, "Determining ownership in law involves determining who has certain rights and duties over the property." Merriam-Webster says that it means to have or hold as property, or to have power or mastery over something. Arkolon says that it's something natural, not dissimilar from gravity, and objective from the demands of mortal men. Others say it's the domain and definition of law alone.
Until we can agree on what it means to "own" anything, we won't agree on who owns ourselves.
This has basically been what we've been doing for the bulk of the thread. Even if ownership was defined a certain way, there'd be the question of why ownership in that sense is meaningful, or why we don't define it another way.