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- From: noonan@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Michael P Noonan)
- Subject: Re: Slavery Analogy
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- In article <1992Dec29.213513.22430@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
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- |> Let's take this rather slowly:
- |>
- |> Slavery is not possible without an enabling government or
- |> enabling legislation. Either there is someone to enforce slavery
- |> or it doesn't exist. Take for example someone who wished to
- |> make someone much larger than them a slave. It probably wouldn't
- |> work, or it wouldn't last too long unless there was external
- |> help to make it happen. Granted, without law slavery is
- |> legal, but there is also no law enforcing involuntary servitude
- |> nor is there any law mandating return of a "slave."
-
- You are saying here that in a natural state (no law), a small man cannot
- enslave a bigger man, or a minority cannot enslave a majority.
-
- |> It is exactly the opposite in the case of abortion. No enabling
- |> legislation or government is necessary to make it happen. In
- |> the absence of law abortion is legal, to be sure, in the absence
- |> of law everything is. It is the default state. It requires a
- |> law to ban abortion, not enable it.
-
- You are saying here that in a natural state (no law), a developed
- person can stop the beating heart of a lesser developed person.
-
- What's the difference? In both cases, the stronger can impose will
- upon the weaker or underrepresented?
-
- |> There is but one example of many that show that slavery and abortion
- |> are rather different subjects. There may be similarities, but
- |> at their core they are quite different.
- |>
- |> There may be some similarities I might be able to find between a
- |> whale and a jet aircraft. The existence of some similarities does
- |> not make the two things equivalent, nor does it lead us to
- |> believe that conclusions we draw about one to be valid about
- |> the other.
- |>
- |> It has been acknowledged that there are some similarities
- |> between abortion and slavery. There may be some others. That
- |> some similarities exist does not enable us to use one to draw
- |> conclusions about the other, however.
- |>
- |>
- |> --
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- |> Galen Hekhuis UVa Health Sci Ctr (804)982-1646 gjh@virginia.edu
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- Mike Noonan
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