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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Quote from ME
- Message-ID: <32820@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 02:12:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.054541.14740@panix.com> <32776@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov17.214309.22646@panix.com>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <1992Nov17.214309.22646@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes:
- >In <32776@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
- >
- >[If I want to make a practice of torturing cats for fun]
- >>Then, make sure you move to a community or state where they have not
- >>enacted protections of animals on the basis that your right to torture
- >>animals is not outweighed by the right of animals not to be tortured.
- >>Or, move to a remote location and do as you please.
- >
- >Do you believe it is in principle wrong for a community or state to
- >enact such protections?
-
- I think the political systems of all states and communities need to
- come to an agreement about how the rights of various entities will be
- traded when they come in conflict. Protecting cats from torture is
- not very high on my list of uses for scarce state resources; I do not,
- however, oppose protection for cats in principle. For that matter,
- neither do I oppose protections for /z/e/f/s in principle. I oppose
- protections for /z/e/f/s that trample all over the rights of the women
- in whose bodies they reside.
-
- SJM
-