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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!news.aero.org!zeus
- From: zeus@aero.org (Dave Suess)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Jim, the chastity belt theory ... [torturing cats]
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 20:47:59 GMT
- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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- Message-ID: <1ejitvINNej4@news.aero.org>
- References: <1992Nov19.151140.13819@panix.com> <1ei7nmINNc3e@news.aero.org> <1992Nov20.175044.3029@panix.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: zapodid.aero.org
- Summary: last request to quit torturing cats and argue substantively
- Keywords: forced childbirth
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- In article <1992Nov20.175044.3029@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes:
- >In <1ei7nmINNc3e@news.aero.org> zeus@aero.org (Dave Suess) writes:
- >> 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.
- >
- >That seems wrong -- I don't think people who favor laws against
- >torturing cats would be satisfied by laws against the public torture
- >of cats that permitted people to engage in such conduct as long as it
- >was kept under wraps.
-
- Yes, their senses and sensibilities would be offended
- by private torture of cats. Any point here? Portions
- of my two posts previous on this continue to be deleted:
- why bring cat-torturing into the argument, since it's
- irrelevant? Is the position held so vacuous that it needs
- cheap props?
- Dave Suess zeus@aerospace.aero.org
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