tumbledry

Stuff from October, 2022

This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on October, 2022.

Human autonomy

Margaret Talbot, writing at the New Yorker:

None of that changes the fundamental principle of human autonomy: people have to be able to make their own decisions in matters that profoundly and intimately affect their own bodies and the course of their lives. Regret and ambivalence, the ways that one decision necessarily precludes others, are inextricable facts of life, and they are also fluid and personal. Guessing the extent to which individuals may feel such emotions, hypothetically, in the future, is not a basis for legislative bans and restrictions.

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