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- From: starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr)
- Subject: Re: Feminism and Libertarians
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.231354.4870@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
- Organization: UDel, School of Life & Health Sciences
- References: <1992Dec20.001534.27631@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Dec20.194039.12436@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1992Dec20.222747.11735@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:13:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.222747.11735@samba.oit.unc.edu> bolden@beta.math.unc.edu (Jeffrey Bolden) writes:
- } Asking someone out on a date is not a crime, and no one wants to
- }make it one.
-
- The Mother of sexual harassment, Catharine MacKinnon, does, as does her partner
- in crime, Andrea Dworkin. Then again, they think that if heterosexual sex
- involves penetration, then the woman is being oppressed.
-
- >The question is why should it be permissable for one person
- }to verbally harrass another?
-
- Nope, the question is whether "unwelcome" sexual advances constitute harassment.
-
- >Assualt (in the legal sense of the word,
- }which means to threaten) is a felony, even if no actual attack takes
- }place. Woman seem to feel the same way about assault that men do; however
- }they also fall victim to another type of assualt; sexual intimidation,
- }commonly called sexual harrasment.
-
- I'm unfamiliar with the definition of "sexual intimidation." Will you
- please elaborate?
-
- } Do you object to laws against assualt? Why should one form be a
- }felony, and the other a very hard to prove tort?
-
- It's a very hard to prove felony at the moment. However, I'm of the vein
- of libertarian thought that thinks that crimes should be treated as intentional
- torts. This would include felonies.
-
- } Clearly there is a need for some laws regarding medical
- }techniques. But is there a need for laws regarding mopping techniques?
-
- Malpractice standards, but that's all.
-
- }However, is there any justification for treating this sort of
- }medicine different? Why should woman's health concerns, not recieve equal
- }treatment.
-
- If the woman's health concern is a chosen pregnancy, then holding her as
- responsible for it as someone who drinks and drives is equal treatment under
- just laws.
-
- } Your not the first person to say this. Its suprising that almost
- }all the libertarians seem to think marriage should be eliminated. I'm
- }curious to find out why. This is a very strong stance to take.
-
- We believe in minimizing the State, and see no reason why the State should
- favor two-party heterosexual marriages over homosexual ones, polygamous
- ones, etc. Rather than writing a laundry list of kinds of permissible
- marriages to be sanctioned by the State, we'd rather get the State out of
- the business of sanctioning this private contract.
-
- Tim Starr - Renaissance Now! - Think Universally, Act Selfishly
- starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu
-
- "True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten
- oneself and others." - Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
-