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- From: jay.wise@mail.trincoll.edu
- Subject: Re: DID BUSH KILL HIS CHANCES BY NOT ATTACKING FOCA?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.210134.1098@starbase.trincoll.edu>
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- Organization: Trinity College
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:01:34 GMT
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- In article <phil.722110508@seidel> phil@seidel.ucsb.edu (Philip Papadopoulos)
- writes:
- >
- >> If you want to oppose abortion, go ahead. But when you try to
- >>force EVERYONE to obey your beliefs, you are being un-American in
- >>the extreme. People won't put up with this shit any more. It is
- >>becoming a different America. You fundies have had your day. It
- >>is over for you intolerant bastards. Go crawl back to that swamp
- >>from which you came. And don't come out until you can stop lying
- >>to everyone.
- >
- >Since you have lowered the level of this conversation. I will
- >respond in kind:
- >
- >"Fuck all you want. Get as many abortions as you want. I don't give flying
- >fuck about people who want abortions on demand - at any time - for any
- >reason. -- Just don't ask me (a person who doesn't screw anything
- >that moves, and a taxpayer) to pay for it"
- >
- Well, boys (or girls). Don't you just love high-minded discourse!
- Unfortunately, this appears to be the level to which most discussion of
- this issue of this issue inevitably descends, which is pathetic.
-
- First of all, the "taxpayers complaint" doesn't carry much weight.
- Tax-paying pacifists are still forced to contribute funds towards, say,
- B-1 bombers; federally funded abortions are a matter of health care, a matter
- of equity, and if the government decides accordingly, I don't think
- you have much of a case.
-
- On the other hand, the kind of puerile exchange that went on above only
- illustrates how fundamental this problem is. We should (as Dan Quayle said
- in the VP debate (although if anyone had ever told me I'd be quoting DQ,
- I'd have hit them over the head with a blunt instrument)) be searching for
- middle ground, talking about things we can agree over, rather than wasting
- time with juvenile name-calling.
-