home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!news.ans.net!cmcl2!panix!jk
- From: jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- Subject: Re: Quote from ME
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.155934.15998@panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:59:34 GMT
- References: <23971@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <1992Nov12.162153.1591@panix.com> <satdn4g@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1992Nov14.151657.8820@panix.com> <sen9tso@zola.esd.sgi.com> <Bxvwop.M1x@access.digex.com> <shl2l14@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Institute for the Human Sciences
- Lines: 16
-
- In <shl2l14@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:
-
- >I would
- >say, in fact, that the state shouldn't ever use "moral rights"
- >as justication for laws. The state has no business making any
- >statements about "morality".)
-
- What do you mean by this? It seems to me that judgements of good and
- bad are a necessary part of all action. For example, if the state
- does something to promote economic growth it does it because it thinks
- economic growth is good. How can the state act at all without taking
- positions on what things are good and what things are bad?
- --
- Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
- "Alles Erworbne bedroht die Maschine, solange
- sie sich erdreistet, im Geist, statt im Gehorchen, zu sein." (Rilke)
-