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- From: brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 16:08:43 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- In article <bob1.727980568@cos> bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw) writes:
- >In <lm16jfINNe66@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) writes:
- >
- >>Entirely true, Steve. However, as palatable as abortion may be when
- >>compared to the --------- , to Suzanne (and myself for the time being),
- >>it is still one person taking the life of another, without the latter's
- >>consent, or dare I say, choice.
- >
- >Of course, it would never have anything to do with your desire to try
- >and make your arguments appear to have greater weight, by dragging in
- >an unrelated blot on humanity, would it?
-
- I take this to refer to Suzanne Forgach's reference to the Holocaust. It
- seemed that her approach was to communicate what she perceives to be
- horrifying: the taking of human life. Her strategy is to link abortion
- to something generally accepted as inconscionable. A rather commonly
- used strategy in many persuasive works.
-
- >If you find yourself unable to come up with a cogent argument without
- >irrelevant analogies, why not simply admit it?
-
- I most surely will. (Do you prefer to be referred to as "Grouch" or "Bob
- Blackshaw"?) I am most capable of constructing cogent arguments, and quite
- frankly, I feel that the strategy used by Suzanne Forgach incorrectly
- represents the abortion issue. It infuses a powerful emotion of horror
- that I feel must be avoided if we are to come to a rational solution to
- this problem.
-
- This is why I sought to moderate Suzanne's and Steve's arguments. Suzanne
- made abortion seem horrible by linking it to the Holocaust; Steve argued
- that abortion is quite mild in comparison to it. In a way, both were right.
- In a way, both were wrong. I hoped to point out these ways, and in the
- process bring the emotion out of it.
-
- >>Paul Brinkley
- >>brinkley@cs.utexas.edu
- >>Pro-Thought Advocate
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >Then why not take your own advice?
-
- Could this be my first flame?? I must say, I'm flattered. :)
-
- In the interest of bandwidth, I'll leave my signature up there.
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