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- From: cj@eno.corp.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
- Subject: Re: The C word
- Message-ID: <nid76tk@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Sender: news@fido.asd.sgi.com (Usenet News Admin)
- Reply-To: cj@eno.corp.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
- Organization: SGI TechPubs
- References: <1992Jul16.232106.14890@panix.com> <1992Jul17.190854.8652@hemlock.cray.com> <1992Jul19.005352.10729@panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:40:29 GMT
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- jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes:
- |mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson) writes:
- |>What about married persons who have all the children they
- |>can support? Do you think they should all be celibate?
- |
- |Depends on what the consequences of having another child would be. If
- |they would be bad enough to make them think abortion would be justified
- |in case of pregnancy, then I think they should be celibate unless there
- |is a method of birth control available that is reliable enough to stake
- |a life on (surgical sterilization?).
-
- This is ridiculous! Here you don't even have the conventional
- crutch of christian condemnation of extramarital sex. You're
- presuming to judge the sexual behavior of MARRIED COUPLES.
-
- You do NOT get to make sexual decisions for other people.
- Especially not when you blithely ignore human nature and
- reality as you do above.
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- cj@eno.corp.sgi.com C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
- "I am going tomorrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable
- quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men
- are the only ones worth knowing, after all." Jane Austen
-