John Oliver & Payday Loans

[SixisBetter]

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[jeebus]

It's actually very few, highly depending on which kingdom, fiefdom or city-state one might be in. It's nothing at all resembling the US in any way, in that regard.

Not that surprising someone there somewhere said you can't sell your body or body parts.

To be clear, I was refering to citizens. I assume others had less strict restrictions. I believe the numbers of citizens was more uniform than is generally believed. The many different political system hides the consistent 5-10%. Democratic Athens at its height had a population of a 500,000 and a citizenry of around 30,000 -50,000. Laconia had a citizenry of 5,000-10,0000 and a population of 100,000.

 

[jeebus]

Re: the bolded, my apologies. i got you confused with another poster, who definitely IS dodging the question.

As to the rest - that's macabre. Buying dead bodies. EEEEWWWWWWWW!

Didn't you start the selling organs and shit? You own them and can do what you want. But we settled the question in 1865 whether you can buy a person.

 

[Doomsday]

Didn't you start the selling organs and shit? You own them and can do what you want. But we settled the question in 1865 whether you can buy a person.

No, I responded to such. And no we don't own them in the sense that we can sell them - we can DONATE certain ones while alive so hospitals can sell them for transplants, and we can donate all our organs, post mortem. Again for sale by the hospitals. Which again begs the question, who owns our bodies?

If we own our organs we should be able to sell them.

 

[Doomsday]

To be clear, I was refering to citizens. I assume others had less strict restrictions. I believe the numbers of citizens was more uniform than is generally believed. The many different political system hides the consistent 5-10%. Democratic Athens at its height had a population of a 500,000 and a citizenry of around 30,000 -50,000. Laconia had a citizenry of 5,000-10,0000 and a population of 100,000.

It's still coming nothing anywhere close to private property rights in general, as we know them today in the US.

 

[Doomsday]

More to the point of the thread, someone earlier was comparing these payday loans to selling your organs and should be outlawed the same way selling your organs is, or some such.