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- From: zeus@aero.org (Dave Suess)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Jim, the chastity belt theory ... [torturing cats]
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 08:30:46 GMT
- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
- Lines: 23
- Message-ID: <1ei7nmINNc3e@news.aero.org>
- References: <1992Nov17.220557.23514@panix.com> <1ecpmpINN2vp@news.aero.org> <1992Nov19.151140.13819@panix.com>
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- Summary: long way around an argument
- Keywords: forced childbirth
-
- In article <1992Nov19.151140.13819@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes:
- >In <1ecpmpINN2vp@news.aero.org> zeus@aero.org (Dave Suess) writes:
- >> I've been reading way too much about torturing cats; it looks
- >> an awful lot like an appeal to emotion (a tactic usually reserved
- >> for those who have no substantive arguments to offer). How about
- >> changing it to torturing cockroaches? Or, better yet, talking
- >> about abortion?
- >
- >The example was advanced in response to a view many people seem to
- >hold that in principle it is wrong to keep someone from doing what he
- >wishes as long as he isn't violating the rights of some other person.
- >I think the example shows that view is wrong, and so it is relevant to
- >the discussion. I would agree that there are many differences between
- >torturing cats and having an abortion.
-
- As far as I know, the offense committed by a cat-torturer
- is an offense against the senses and sensibilities of *other*
- *people,* in a class with public nudity and maintaining a
- smelly mess in one's own back yard. Consequently, I don't
- think the example shows a legitimate fault. Considering that
- there are "many differences" between torturing cats and abortion,
- I'd prefer to read discussions that stick to the latter.
- Dave Suess zeus@aerospace.aero.org
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