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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Jim's bizarre equivalencies.
- Message-ID: <32849@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:01:11 GMT
- References: <32779@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov17.220557.23514@panix.com> <32841@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <1992Nov17.220557.23514@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- argues for some equivalencies that would worry me if they were the
- basis of my argument:
-
- >That is an appropriate way to view the situation if it is accepted
- >that abortion is an acceptable way to handle a pregnancy and the only
- >question is whether to choose it in the particular situation. Of
- >course, not everyone looks at things that way. From the pro-life
- >point of view, you might as well say that a dispute between those who
- >do and those who don't want to forbid torturing cats to death for fun
- >depends on whether the owner or some interfering do-gooder is best
- >qualified to decide how to handle the situation in which cat owners
- >find themselves.
-
- Man torturing cats == pregnant women.
- /z/e/f/ == cat.
-
- Of course, these are no more ridiculous than the fundamental
- equivalency in consequences of behavior, most vehemently not gender
- says Jim, that is the basis of the chastity belt theory of forced
- pregnancy:
-
- {Financial support} == {Financial support} U {Use of body for 9
- months}.
-
- Obvioulsy false unless the consequences of the use of one's body for 9
- months is the empty set. We have strong evidence that it is not.
-
- SJM
-