At 09:57 AM 2/12/01 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
>>Thus, the woman is forced with the choice:
>>a) Abort the child
>>b) Accept $1 million and a 1/3rd chance that her child will be the >slave
>>of a Hollywood producer, having an otherwise comfortable life.
>>
>>My problem is that if you think that a woman has a right to do "A", >how
>>can you argue that she does not have the right to do "B."
>
>But, we do it all the time. People are not required to make sacrifices so
>that others may live. Yet, they are not able to offer a deal: I'll donate
>my bone marrow for you if and only if you agree to be my slave.
Well, that is not totally true. For example, I believe that there are
"Good Samaritan" laws, that make neglect criminally punishable. For
example, if a baby showed up on your doorstep, shivering in the cold, and
you did not take it inside - I believe that you would be criminally
punishable (and IMHO, you would certainly be morally culpable.)
>John, from reading your posts over the last few years, I don't picture you
>being interested in seeing other points of view. While I'm not pro-choice,
>I live with a pro-choice wife. I can see her point of view as well as my
>own.
What, do you think that I write to listen to the sound of my fingers on the
keyboard? If I'm not interested in seeing other points of view, do you
think that I write in the hopes of getting no responses?
Look, if I was not interested in the other points of view - I certainly
could find an awful great many better uses of my time, than showing up here
to get messages questioning my charachter and intellectual honesty thrown
back at me.
In the meantime, I'd hope that you could actually think through the
implications of what you write before you go off accusing somebody of
something.
The great irony of course, is that seeing other points of view is exactly
the reason that *am* here and the reason that I participate on this list so
much. Let's face it, on most issues there is at best a handful of active
posters agreeing with me - and usually there are fewer than that. What
other purpose could I *have* than to be surrounded by other points of view.
More specifically, on the abortion issue, as I have noted often enough in
the past, I have always gotten the feeling that a great many people on this
list do not understand my position, or see my point of view. I have
expressed several times that I hope that more people on this list might
understand the motivations and thought processes of pro-lifers.
At the same time, I readily admit that I do not fully understand or
appreciate the pro-choice position. Indeed, I find the pro-choice position
incredibly frustrating - and try as I might, I simply cannot fully
appreciate how reasonable people can persisit in a viewpoint that I find
wholly indefensible. That is why I seek to understand this position in
the only way I know how - I poke it, prod it, twist, and approach it from
every possible angle that I can. Someday, I'd like to think that I can
figure it all out.
JDG
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"The point of living in a Republic after all, is that we do not live by
majority rule. We live by laws and a variety of isntitutions designed
to check each other." -Andrew Sullivan 01/29/01
