On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:16:21 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > The contestants are not really selling their privacy, just performing > > for pay. but even if they were, it is theirs' to give or sell, not > > ours to take.
> I thought that the whole point of an inalienable right was that it could > not be bought or sold (or given or taken, for that matter). > > I was thinking about the distinction you made, and wondering if it meant > that I could legally sell my (supposed) inalienable right to > freedom/liberty on eBay (i.e., can I sell myself into slavery-- not > indentured servitude, but actual slavery, That's not a valid comparison, because the idi^H^H^Hcontestants on BB are only selling their privacy for a limited time, not for good. Most of them probably find their lives become private again far sooner than they had wished, the talentless, publicity-seeking wannabes. Besides that, if freedom is an inalienable right, does that not include the freedom to sell that freedom? Not that we really have any truly inalienable rights. -- Neil Bothwick I'd give real money if he'd shut up!
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