LA MARCHANDISATION DU VIVANT: AVORTEMENT, PROSTITUTION, EUTHANASIE,... I A. Mercier & Rav Sadin

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Hello everyone, welcome to Taorabox for a new episode in the series we're dedicating with RF Sadine to the major ideologies that reign in contemporary modernity. Hello RF Sadine, hello Antoine, and hello to the editors. Today we're talking about a phenomenon that's becoming increasingly common in our Western societies: the propensity to commodify life, in other words, what we call the commodification of life. It's a multifaceted phenomenon that we'll try to address using our method, which consists of clearly defining what it is in a contemporary way and then also discussing what the contemporary way and then also discussing what the Torah offers us, allowing us to think about the issue. We often hear about this commodification of life in many different situations, specifically the right to control one's body. How can we understand this mindset of saying, "I have the right to control my body"? What overall vision do we have of humanity and human existence? Well, I think you're really touching on the problem. We've gone from a notion problem. We've gone from a notion of common law—I mean, community law, which I mean a community that can be national or even global, with utopias for humanity in general—to the collapse of all the great utopias, particularly communist or fascist, or whatever you want to call them. We're now in a perpetual state of demanding personal rights, which is the only legitimacy that exists. Governments and ideological bodies, which are supposed to ideological bodies, which are supposed to work towards allowing or prohibiting things, are called upon to respond to a need for individual rights. So, when we've reduced ethics and morality simply to individual rights because that's what makes sense today, and the common good—we'll see this perhaps later—is completely dissolved, there's no longer a common project, no longer a common identity. There's globalization, and that's why we arrive at

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1. 0:00Hello everyone, welcome to Taorabox for a new episode in the series we're dedicating with RF…
2. 2:38constant solicitation of selfishness, of pettiness, of one's own small personal rights. An isolated individual ultimately…
3. 5:44fundamental ethical issue, and the big question is whether, after 12 weeks, an abortion can be…
4. 8:45you take an ultrasound of a pregnant woman, you see that before, we see a small…
5. 11:52contraception too, because ultimately, it's a way of preventing the possibility of having a child. Is…
6. 15:00a relationship with their biological mother and give them to another. Not only is it something…
7. 18:05reducing the body to a thing, it's reducing the body to something that belongs to me,…
8. 21:09suicide so as not to become prostitutes, boys and girls. And the Akbara praises this suicide…
9. 24:20we call it? People who work around... the work of death, or an industry, an industry…
10. 27:24with the soul, with the... Terchni, when we talk about cremation, we enter into spiritual union…

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