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- From: jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Jim, the chastity belt theory, and me, Part 6
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.222645.24532@panix.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:26:45 GMT
- References: <32736@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov17.065357.18024@panix.com> <32783@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Organization: Institute for the Human Sciences
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- In <32783@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
-
- >If the /z/e/f/ is so sacred, why does the rapist's wrong
- >invalidate its sacred right to life? Can you name any other situation
- >where another person's crime invalidates the right to life of some
- >second entity?
-
- It doesn't invalidate the value of the z/e/f, it only makes it less
- appropriate to require the mother to cooperate in preserving that
- value.
-
- I take you out in my boat knowing that you can't swim and that you're
- extraordinarily clumsy (as helpless as a babe, you might say). If you
- fall in, my guess is that I would be held legally responsible to pull
- you out. On the other hand, if some third party threw you into the
- water next to my boat I believe I would have no such responsiblity.
- Your right to live would be the same in either case, but my legal
- obligation to help realize that right would depend on whether the
- danger you were in resulted from my action or from the action of a
- third party.
- --
- Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
- "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence." (Blake)
-