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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Jim, the chastity belt theory, and me, Part 5
- Message-ID: <32781@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:57:59 GMT
- References: <32728@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <32735@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov17.064218.17638@panix.com>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <1992Nov17.064218.17638@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes:
- >In <32735@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
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- >You seem to be drawing a distinction that I don't understand between
- >having an opinion and believing that opinion to be true.
-
- My problem is when you want to force women to behave as if they hold
- your opinion.
-
- >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?
-
- I'm not an animal rights activists and generally don't see the purpose
- served by devoting scarce government resources to protect animals.
-
- >>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.
-
- A drunk driver is not forced to donate tissue, blood, or organs to
- save the life of a victim of his bad judgment.
-
- SJM
-