Hal wrote:
> But to go from there and say that you own the products of your labor is
> entirely unjustified, unless these products emerge directly from your body
> (and I doubt that anyone will fight you over those products).
>
Given a future including general assemblers, it looks as though there is the
possibility of an extreme form of libertarianism, who's devotees will
assemble objects only from their own bodily waste, just for the moral weight
that this carries re: ownership.
When you go that far, you need to ask about who owns the input atoms,
presumably from food. Maybe those atoms are someone else's? Maybe the
ownership of the physical body is less clear cut than it seems?
Emlyn
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