> 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?
Sounds to me like you just did . . .
ex�hort [] ( P ) Pronunciation Key ([]g-z�rt[])
v. ex�hort�ed, ex�hort�ing, ex�horts
v. tr.
To urge by strong, often stirring argument, admonition, advice, or appeal: exhorted the troops to hold the line.
v. intr. To make urgent appeal.
[Middle English exhorten, from Latin exhort[]r[] : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + hort[]r[], to encourage; see gher-2 in Indo-European Roots.]
ex�hort[]er n.
Source: The American Heritage� Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright � 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
exhort
\Ex*hort"\, v. i. To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.
With many other words did he testify and exhort. --Acts ii. 40.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, � 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
exhort
\Ex*hort"\, n. Exhortation. [Obs.] --Pope.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, � 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
exhort
\Ex*hort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exhorting.] [L. exhortari; ex out + hortari to incite, encourage; cf. F. exhorter. See Hortative.] To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.
Examples gross as earth exhort me. --Shak.
Let me exhort you to take care of yourself. --J. D. Forbes.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, � 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
exhort
v 1: urge on or encourage esp. by shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers" [syn: cheer, inspire, urge, barrack, urge on, pep up] 2: force or impel in an indicated direction; "I urged him to finish his studies" [syn: urge, urge on, press]
Source: WordNet � 1.6, � 1997 Princeton University
-- Ronn! :)
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