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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: More of JIm's strange equivalencies.
- Message-ID: <32846@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 15:55:19 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.065357.18024@panix.com> <32783@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov17.222645.24532@panix.com>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <1992Nov17.222645.24532@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- writes: to me:
-
- >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.
-
- Me, adult male human being == human /z/e/f/
-
- Taking action to save a drowning person == months of forced pregnancy
- and childbirth
-
- Taking physically inept person out on a boat, apparently without a
- life jacket == Making good faith effort to avoid pregnancy using birth
- control
-
- I don't accept any of these. Nor do I hold the gender equivalence of
- a chastity belt policy of forced pregnancy that would force men and
- women to provide financial resources for the /z/e/f/ but compel only
- women to be used as incubators for it.
-
- SJM
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