Been thinking about this one. Actually the investigative measures
predicted by Buck are not extremely excessive with respect to
consensual, prohibition-like, victimless crimes. Look at the drug
war: no victims / evidence / bodies, but excessive
investigations/convictions; often no drugs even found or used or
sold - just "conspiracies"/"intent". IMO, prohibiting abortion
(making it another victimless crime) would incur similar (or
worse) enforcement tactics by the state.
-Mark
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Mark,
> He most certainly starts his
> examples/analysis with a dead body, and has the invasive
> investigative measures come next (as a result of the death).
Um, no. He starts with invasive investigative measures (women
turning
in their tampons, etc.) in order to determine IF there is a dead
body,
in the absence of any allegation based on probable cause that
there is
one.
Believe it or not, I don't have to take my 13-year-old daughter,
seven-year-old son, and a five-year-old sonto the medical
examiner's
month every month so that he can determine that I haven't killed
them.
Nor do I have to go to the medical examiner's office every month
to
let him know that I don't have a one-year-old whom I might have
killed.
Buck posits a standard that has does not exist for any type of
killing, then argues -- without a shred of evidence to support
said
argument -- that such a standard would have to exist if abortion
were
treated as a type of killing.
In doing so, he falls into several fallacies, including but not
limited to ignoratio elenchi ("irrelevant conclusion" or "red
herring"), appeal to consequences of belief, and slippery slope.
I think Erik's a great guy, but I know he can do better than
that.
Tom Knapp
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