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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: Back to responsibility
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:01:07 GMT
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- garrod@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (David Garrod) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan27.233020.10389@rotag.mi.org>, kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >......
- >>
- >> A right to be supported? Yes. A right to get that support from a particular
- >> source or sources? Why? What's the justification? Does it really matter to
- >> the child whether his or next meal is paid for by Mommy's greenbacks, Daddy's
- >> greenbacks, taxpayer's greenbacks, or a combination of the above? Seems to
- >> me that the legislature only has a vital interest in whether the child is
- >> adequately supported. The question of WHERE that support comes from should
- >> be settled using common law notions of legal obligation, as I have proposed.
- >>
- > I would suggest that the first obligated to support the child
- > are BOTH of the parents. (not necessarily equally, but according
- > to their ability.)
- > Only AFTER it has been shown that the parents do not have the
- > capability should society, in general, support the child.
- >
- >The KEY word, which you seem not to understand is RESPONSIBILITY.
- >
- >See title!
-
- The KEY word that you seem unable to understand is RESPONSIBILITY.
-
- Is it undeniably RESPONSIBLE for a woman to bring a child into
- the world, knowing that the parents *cannot* support it?
-
- Is it a RESPONSIBLE decision if a woman aborts a child because she
- has thought deeply on the matter and believes she and the father
- cannot support the child?
-
- Your opinion seems to be that she can make a RESPONSIBLE decision
- unilaterally, but that she is not RESPONSIBLE for her decision. He is.
-
- Don
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