A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 4-Mar-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Should A have the right to "conduct his (or her) most private life according
to his or her own rules?"

Deliberately infecting a person with any disease is illegal around here.

Indeed.

No sex required.

But sex is a vector.

This does not address the issue of sexual freedom.
But then you like changing the topic instead of addressing the issues.

The issue is whether the state has a legitimate interest in proscribing
unprotected sexual activity by someone who is known to be infected with an
STD. Why don't you address that question?


However, to answer your implicit question, in the US, the US and state
Supreme Courts are the arbiters of the law, and thus arbiters of "rights."

They cannot arbitrate over that which does not exist.

Of course they can. They can decide that a particular "right," like, say,
the "right" to an abortion is found within the ambit of the Constitution.

So I ask again -
where are those rights defined?

Er, nice try, but that's what I'm asking YOU.

Height within a species is a sign of a morphological difference - bogus.

Factually speaking it is.

morphology: 2. The form and structure of an organism or any of its parts.

Height is a part of the form and structure, and differences in height are a
morphological difference.

Don't blame me if you used the wrong word.

Perhaps you should look at how scientists use the term and not lexicographers.

If they use it differently than the textbook definition, they are misusing
the term, and thus their scientific credential are in question. I think it's
more likely that you are misusing the term, and that the scientists use the
proper terms.

We are discussing it in a scientific context. If height was a significant
morphological difference, there would be no morphological similarity between
any members of a species and would make the study worthless.

Perhaps you are using the wrong word.

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