--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote: > > Dear Mario, > You seem to care a great deal about girls who are > not yet born and very little about girls that > already are. One of those strange ironies that > conservatives are hard pressed to explain, no doubt. > Mario responds: > You are half right. > You are absolutely correct that we conservatives care more for the unborn whose lives are in jeopardy [50 million since 1973 in the US alone, far more around the world] than what schoolgirls are being asked to wear in Goa or anywhere else. > You are absolutely incorrect that we care little for them after they are born. It is because we care that we support the adoption of unwanted babies to parents who really want them. > Also, conservative and libertarian economic policies have helped more people in more countries and created so much economic wealth and personal freedom that the liberal alternative of coercive socialism has been largely consigned to the dustbin of history where it rightly belongs. > In the meantime the social liberals, who curiously describe themselves as humanists, while supporting and justifying and cheering on the massacre of millions of innocent human lives, are wringing your hands and gnashing their teeth over what some idiotic Goan bureaucrats want schoolgirls to WEAR??? > This is a policy that jeopardizes no one and should be easy to reverse with some well organized agitation by the parents with help from Goa Suraj. If they can't overturn this stupid rule, then how are they going to overturn the Goa government and achieve their ambitious Road Map? > Elisabeth writes: > > If you had read my original post, a reason was > mentioned therein. Apparently a Salwaar Kameez > facilitates physical exercise. At least this was the > reason given by the newspaper. It's nice to know > that a cumbersome garment like the Salwaar Kameez is > suitable for physical exercise/training. After all > spandex is an evil creation and its uses should be > confined to making Bollywood outfits. > Mario replies: > You seem to have missed my opinion, repeated a couple of times, that I thought the policy was absurd on it's face. However, I am more interested in what the people actually affected think, the parents and girls themselves. Finally, I object to the overheated analogy comparing stupid Goan bureaucrats with the Taliban. That was as inappropriate as calling all those who support abortion-on-demand Nazis. > Elisabeth writes: > > I'm glad you've put JoeGoaUK on The Trail of the > Salwaar Kameez. I hope he has better luck with it > than he had with the Murder Mystery of Father > Eusebio. > Mario responds: > You may or may not recall that I was the one who took JoeGoaUK and others to task when they tried to besmirch Fr. Euesebio's character without any evidence, and you provided positive comments from your relatives in Goa that knew Eusebio. However, Joe has reported accurately and diligently on several other issues and does a pretty good when he sticks to the facts and avoids unsubstantiated opinions. > Elisabeth writes: > > Secondly, when I liken the policy to that of the > Taliban, I want only to impress upon the fact that > an imposition is made on a women which is not made > on a man. The degree may differ but an imposition > it is. > Mario replies: > Have we reached a point where we cannot discuss anything on it's own merits without resorting to such inappropriate verbal and emotional histrionics? We are seeing more and more comments on Goanet about people not even involved in a problem describing themselves as being personally "afraid", "terrified", etc. Are they trying to create subliminal sympathy for their point-of-view? > Elisabeth writes: > > Now, if you want to be contrary for the sake of > being contrary, please go ahead Mary, oops Mario. I > have nothing more to add. By the way, in French it > is au contraire, not aux contraire. Just thought I'd > mention it before we have Aunty Francis writing you > another report card :) > Mario replies: > I wish that you and the good Aunty were as diligent about your facts and analogies as you are with your spellings and grammar. > BTW, I hope you have noted that micromanage is not spelled micro-manage? :-)) >
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