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- From: jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- Subject: Re: Jim, the chastity belt theory, and me, Part 2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.060654.15779@panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:06:54 GMT
- References: <32728@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <32731@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Organization: Institute for the Human Sciences
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- In <32731@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
-
- >Any attempt to draw a
- >strong link between probabilities of events and the way we perceive
- >and plan policy for them, including assigning responsibility, is
- >doomed: See Kahneman, Slovic, and Tversky's excellent summary of the
- >evidence in all kinds of areas in their 1984 book Judgment and Choice.
-
- K., S. & T. show that our plans for the future and who we feel should
- be responsible for what have no strong connection to what sorts of
- things we believe are likely to happen? I am sceptical.
-
- >Besides I agree we need to hold people responsible for pregnancy,
- >including the responsible choice to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
-
- Whether that choice is responsible, of course, depends on the nature
- of the act, which in turn depends on the nature of the z/e/f. That's
- what the whole dispute depends on.
- --
- Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
- "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence." (Blake)
-