> Somebody got out of bed the wrong side this morning� :) > Maybe, but my point is, whenever people say that promoting abstinence as the only solution to AIDS and teen pregnancy won't work because it goes against human nature, the abstinence-only crowd says, basically, you can change people's behavior through moral exhortation and you have to try, otherwise you're surrendering to evil. But that is essentially the ONLY area where they accept the power of moral exhortation, or even that people's behavior is properly subject to the moral exhortation of others. Wanna drive a huge gas-wasting smaller-car-crushing SUV? Go right ahead, that's your inalienable right. Wanna drain a vital wetland on your property or cut down centuries-old redwoods or drive a snowmobile in a pristine national park or buy 6 million assault rifles or ruin your neighbors' property values by having a huge stinky pig manure lagoon on your factory pork farm? Absolutely, as long as you give a lot of money to the Republicans and pray in an approved ultra-conservative gay-hating woman-hating Christian church.
Exhortation is just fine when it's in favor of something the right wing approves, but it can't even be tried if it's something they don't like, it's an infringement of some crucial freedom. Why do they get to exhort and I don't? Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
