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- From: matt@physics2.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc,rec.arts.books,alt.politics.homosexuality
- Subject: Re: Morally good necessary possible sometimes posssible reproductiveness
- Date: 17 Dec 92 12:38:19
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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- In-reply-to: ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com's message of 17 Dec 92 19:31:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.193101.3978@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:
-
- > As far as I could tell from the articles on my system, your syllogism
- > went as follows:
- > Given, 1) Only potentially productive unions are moral.
- > And given, 2) The union of two males is not potentially productive.
- > Therefore, 3) The union of two males is not moral.
-
- > If #1 was somehow the conclusion (derived principle?) of some other chain
- > of reasoning, that chain is no longer on my system.
-
- I think most people haven't focused on this rather glaring omission,
- since Zeleny has yet to provide a coherent definition of what
- "potentially productive" even means. Once he shows that this concept
- makes sense, then he can begin to argue why it is morally significant.
-
- Me, I think the whole discussion is silly anyway. Most of the things
- that I do, in bed and otherwise, have no connection with reproduction
- at all; should I give up eating cheesecake, reading netnews, and
- calculating Feynman integrals just because none of those things can
- lead to making more babies?
-
- (Well, maybe I should give up reading netnews, but that's not the
- reason...)
-
-
- --
- Matthew Austern Just keep yelling until you attract a
- (510) 644-2618 crowd, then a constituency, a movement, a
- austern@lbl.bitnet faction, an army! If you don't have any
- matt@physics.berkeley.edu solutions, become a part of the problem!
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