Or mere property?In this sharply observed and wryly written book, Ms Kohl captures the sheer weirdness of in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
If slavery was abolished in America on the grounds that human beings cannot be treated as mere property, she argues, why should a mother hold that same power now over her unborn child?
But giving prosecutors the option of bargaining a child sexual abuse charge down to incest invites exploitation and mocks the vaunted principle of justice for all, making children mere property.
What really is lost, if you don't name Erasmus or Montaigne or Molière or, for that matter, Goethe to this list, is the horizon of the good life that is included in what we have called, since the Renaissance, humanism — the belief that, while our lives should be devoted to happiness, they're impoverished without an idea of happiness deeper than mere property-bound prosperity.
What really is lost, if you don't name Erasmus or Montaigne or Molière or, for that matter, Goethe to this list, is the horizon of the good life that is included in what we have called, since the Renaissance, humanism the belief that, while our lives should be devoted to happiness, they're impoverished without an idea of happiness deeper than mere property-bound prosperity.
In the UK, property is no longer mere property.
In this case, claiming that fictional objects are set-correlates rather than mere property sets does not solve the problem, for we have only one set-correlate, yet two distinct objects.
This is a significant departure from the long-held belief that the use of deadly force should not be used to protect mere property.
Stacy Wolf, a lawyer with the ASPCA and senior vice president of the organization's anti-cruelty group, has a more modest goal: She'd like to see the law treat animals, including dogs, as more than mere property.
The legislation, hailed as the "Animals are Not Things Manifesto" lifts the legal status of specific animals from mere property, i.e. inanimate objects like toaster ovens and iPhones that can be manipulated any which way, to sensitive, emotional beings that require nurturing and respect.
