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  • It’s actually rather simple. Microplastics aren’t bad because they “affect genes, which might turn you gay” or whatever. They’re bad because of they’re affecting the body at all, which is technically a modification of our body without our consent. This way of seeing things goes beyond just “thing bad because it makes us sick” but rather looks at if a person had a say in what happens to their body.

    In the cases of viruses and illnesses, one could say that they can use their bodily autonomy to inflict uppon themselves a disease. The fact that illnesses spreads immediately debunks this argument, since the issues with illnesses are that they can easily infect other people, and infringe on their bodily autonomy. If your right stops someone from exercising theirs, it’s not valid. A bit of a “paradox of tolerence”-like statement, if you will.

    In the case of the microplastics, I don’t know many pregnant people that want microplastics in their bodies that changes it (“the body” includes the fetus, which the parent should have full autonomy over, since they have autonomy on their body).

    In a perfect world, everyone would be able to make conscious decisions about what happens to their body. Medecine is (mostly) going after a world like that, but there are also people who want to make decisions for other people’s bodies (eugenicists, or anti abortion people, for example).