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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Male Choice Revi (1)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.035649.18344@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1e8urpINNkjl@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <1992Nov17.064942.26959@rotag.mi.org> <1eb9ucINNjb0@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:56:49 GMT
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- In article <1eb9ucINNjb0@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.064942.26959@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >
- >I don't usually bother responding to Kevin, but he's so incorrect in this
- >instance that I am making an exception. I won't bother responding to future
- >issues in this thread, but it is important not to get these things mixed up.
- >
- >>What you describe is fraud, Adrienne. A criminal act. The man has been misled
- >>into forsaking birth control, and therefore the risk has been brought upon
- >>the woman BY HER OWN ACTIONS. Do you condone this behavior? Would you SUBSIDIZE
- >>this behavior, if it were your wallet on the line?
- >
- >This statement is not correct.
- >
- >The woman in an act of sexual intercourse has not undertaken a contractual
- >obligation to use birth control.
-
- Not necessary for a showing of legal "fraud".
-
- (Note: the man has not undertaken a contractual obligation to pay paternity
- child support, either).
-
- >She has not certified her knowledge in u using it correctly,
-
- Not necessary for a showing of legal "fraud".
-
- >...and she CLEARLY has not caused him through anything
- >other than his own laziness to 'forsake birth control'.
-
- I see, her criminal fraud is 100% excusable, but his alleged, presumed,
- generalized "laziness" in not using a method of birth control which, as far
- as he can tell, is *REDUNDANT*, is punishable by 18+ years of financial
- ruination. And you don't think that's just a teensy weensy bit slanted
- there -- like to the point of being damned near VERTICAL? Do you realize
- that taking out a murder contract on one's lover or divorced spouse is in
- many ways _significantly_ less burdensome than paying 18+ years of child
- support, and that a growing number of men are awakening to this reality,
- and choosing to exercise that "option"? Do you still think there's no
- "problem" here? Are you still going to sit around on your ass and wait
- for The Holy Statistics to fall from Heaven before you hear the call for
- child support reform? What does it take to wake you from your smug
- complacency?
-
- Getting back to the fraud scenario, what if she not only claims to be on the
- pill, but refuses to have sex with him if he insists on wearing a condom?
- Doesn't that get us back to the old "you could have always abstained" crap
- that we flame to a cinder when a pro-lifer spouts it? Why should I tolerate
- the same crap from a pro-(female-)choicer? It still smells the same no matter
- the source.
-
- And, please tell me, why is it that fraud is perfectly-valid grounds for
- voiding almost any kind of legal obligation *EXCEPT* paternity child support?
- Why does society tacitly condone this form of fraud, but not all of the other
- forms? After all, the only people who get burned by fraud on, say, real estate
- deals, are the "lazy" ones, right? Only "lazy" people get burned by mail-order
- fraud or wire fraud, right? Only "lazy" people get burned by bad checks or
- counterfeit money, right?
-
- NOT!
-
- >People lie. We all know this. We *all* know this. Therefore, relying
- >upon the word of another person is AUTOMATICALLY stupid. That's where
- >the whole growth of the legal industry sprang from.
-
- But punishing the victim just bandaids the problem. To fix the problem at its
- root, the incentive for lying must be removed. Otherwise, these "accidents"
- will keep on happening, over and over and over and over and over and over.
- The children who are being used as pawns will pay the price. The men whose
- lives are destroyed will pay the price. For men who die, or leave the country,
- or go underground, in order to avoid paying child support, the welfare rolls
- will pay the price. Finally, our GNP and our workforce's productivity and
- health will suffer, and we'll ALL pay the price. Yes, even the happily-
- married-with-children folks. Even the sterilized or infertile or post-
- menopausal folks. Even you, Adrienne, in spite your inability to see HOW. What
- you don't know CAN hurt you.
-
- >Now, if you want to be a disingenuous idiot, go ahead.
-
- Content, please?
-
- >But don't go telling other people that you can sue for fraud in an unen-
- >forceable situation, because that's doing people who would (be stupid
- >enough to) listen to you a GRAVE disservice.
-
- So much for the unenforceable situations. What about the enforceable ones?
- Or do you just glibly assume that reproductive fraud is impossible to prove
- in each and every case? How convenient.
-
- - Kevin
-