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- Subject: Re: Morally good necessary possible sometimes posssible reproductiveness
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.184450.18580@husc3.harvard.edu>
- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Date: 16 Dec 92 18:44:49 EST
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- In article <1992Dec16.212451.25986@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec16.152321.18570@husc3.harvard.edu>
- >zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
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- >>In article <BzCIMK.AK3@unix.amherst.edu>
- >>jmfuchs@unix.amherst.edu (JESSE MICHAEL FUCHS) writes:
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- JMF:
- >>> But anyway, Mickey, you still haven't answered why oral sex between a
- >>>male and female would be okay (assuming that you feel so,) but that oral sex
- >>>between two men is bad. I'm pretty sure you can't come up with a logical,
- >>>clearly stated reason
-
- MZ:
- >>The short form: because only in the former case, the partners can
- >>switch to a potentially productive venue within their union, at any
- >>time before the climax. The long form will be found in my latest
- >>reply to Mike Morris. I await my promised reward.
-
- ECL:
- >Oh, Lord, if this is what passes for "logical and clearly stated" at
- >Harvard, I weep for the state of higher education in this country.
-
- Why stop at weeping? Immediate suicide would constitute the only
- adequate expression for your grief.
-
- ECL:
- >Even if one grants the premise that a potentially productive union is
- >some alternate world is necessary for certain configurations to be
- >approved--and a more ludicrous premise
-
- The difference between a premiss and a derived principle is normally
- covered in an introductory logic course.
-
- ECL:
- > I haven't seen in a long
- >time--I have no problem seeing that two women or two men could have a
- >potentially productive union in *some* world. (Maybe it's my science
- >fiction background.) Therefore, by your "reasoning," their union
- >should be okay. If you can't envision such a world, that, my friend,
- >is *your* problem, not mine.
-
- Ditto for the difference between the possible and the conceivable.
-
- >Evelyn C. Leeper | +1 908 957 2070 | att!mtgzy!ecl or ecl@mtgzy.att.com
- >--
- >"God does not play dice with the universe." --Albert Einstein
- >"Albert, stop telling God what to do." --Niels Bohr
-
- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
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