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- From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Pre-Sex Contract
- Keywords: Guilty
- Message-ID: <19491@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:50:22 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.171423.16798@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.
- Lines: 48
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- In article <1992Dec18.171423.16798@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
-
- >In article <19483@smoke.brl.mil> matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
- >writes:
-
- >>If a man wants the kind of reproductive freedom that the ladies and
- >>girls currently have, he should have been born a girl. [Matt Rosenblatt]
-
- >You often post this sort of thing Matt, and in some instances
- >I even agree with you. But how far are you willing to take it?
-
- >Let's invoke Godwin's Law here for a moment.
-
- >If my relatives who were carted off to concentration camps in
- >Hitler's Germany had come to you complaining about certain
- >social policies of the German government, would you have
- >replied "If a Jew wants the kind of freedom to come and go
- >as he pleases that Christians currently have, he should have
- >been born a Christian"? [Dave Eisen]
-
- What happened to the Jews in Hitler's Germany shouldn't happen
- to *anyone*. Would it have been any less wrong if Hitler's Nazis
- had gone and rounded up people indiscriminately for imprisonment
- and later murder in concentration camps?
-
- On the other hand, if men are *supposed* to support the children
- they conceive, there's nothing wrong with making them do so, even
- if women can get out of it.
-
- >I agree with you that it is not the function of governmental
- >policy to assuage the ENVY and RESENTMENT of everyone who loses
- >under an existing social system. But you seem to take this to
- >the extreme that the fact that the losers under this system
- >are acting out of ENVY and RESENTMENT automatically weakens
- >their case. I can't imagine why anyone would think this.
-
- There's gotta be a better reason for taking from A and giving to B
- -- which is what redistributionist government policies do -- than
- the mere fact that A has more than B and B therefore ENVIES and
- RESENTS A. If there is no better reason, we should let A alone
- to keep what he has, and tell B to be content with what *he* has.
-
- -- Matt Rosenblatt
- (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)
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