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- From: jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- Subject: Re: Jim, the chastity belt theory, and me, Part 5
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.064218.17638@panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:42:18 GMT
- References: <32728@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <32735@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Organization: Institute for the Human Sciences
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- In <32735@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
-
- >Your assertion about the value of the /z/e/f/ is your opinion, and you
- >are entitled to it. I just don't understand why you want to enact
- >laws that force everyone to conform to it.
-
- You seem to be drawing a distinction that I don't understand between
- having an opinion and believing that opinion to be true.
-
- Maybe an example would help. It is my opinion that the pain
- of animals is a bad thing and that the willful infliction of pain by a
- human being without justification is a bad thing. Since I think those
- really are bad things, I favor laws against torturing cats to death
- for the fun of it. Do you see a problem with my stance on that issue?
-
- >We regularly release people from responsibilities
- >that have a much stronger link with particular behaviors than the link
- >between a pregnancy and an act of sex.
-
- Example?
- --
- Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
- "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence." (Blake)
-