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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.002144.20571@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1992Dec30.012145.13731@watson.ibm.com> <1993Jan7.143415.29717@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan07.183638.17715@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:21:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan07.183638.17715@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- >In <1993Jan7.143415.29717@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec30.012145.13731@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- >>>In <C01Mxq.1I5@ra.nrl.navy.mil> psl@nrl.navy.mil (Paul Lebow) writes:
- >>>>
- >>>>This is silly, of course. Pro-abortion means obviously you favor its
- >>>>availability.
- >>>
- >>>No, "pro-choice" means you favor the availability of that choice;
- >>>"pro-abortion" means you favor the choice itself.
- >>
- >>Hmmm... Is this the same Larry Margolis who insisted to me that arguing for
- >>the AVAILABILITY (via popular concensus) of some abortion restrictions was
- >>equivalent to arguing for those restrictions themselves?
- >
- >No, this is the Larry Margolis who accepted your statement that you were
- >not in *favor* of the restrictions, and who proposed "arguing on behalf
- >of abortion restrictions" as a description of what you do, instead of
- >"arguing for abortion restrictions".
-
- O Thank You, Great Massa, for your generous and big-hearted concession that
- I merely argue "on behalf of" abortion restrictions. Can I lick your boots
- and eat some of the crumbs from your dinner table too?
-
- >I did say that sometimes the
- >*arguments* are indistinguishable, but that's quite different from
- >saying that the two positions are equivalent.
-
- You merely lack the presence of mind to distinguish my arguments from
- pro-life arguments. And, unwilling to accept your own limitations, you prefer
- to blame me for the apparent similarities...
-
- - Kevin
-