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- From: markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: Mark is playing Devil's Advocate, and badly? (Re: Who are you guys?)
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:17:17 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In <bob1.726860519@cos> bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw) writes:
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- >In <29568@oasys.dt.navy.mil> bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense) writes:
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- >>In talk.abortion, markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>>In <29531@oasys.dt.navy.mil> bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense) writes:
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- >>>>Abortion is either wrong, or it is not.
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- >>>Here's your mistake. No serious ethical questions are this absurdly
- >>>simple.
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- >>I made it simple so there would be no mistakes in interpretation. You
- >>seem to move about in absolutes.
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- >>>Compare: The use of force is either wrong, or it is not. If it is wrong,
- >>>you may not use force to prevent someone from killing you. If it is not
- >>>wrong, then anyone who wants may use force however he wants.
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- >The point, Mark, is that taking nothing else into consideration - the
- >use of force may be wrong. However, not all functions are of equal
- >priority. The right of self preservation takes precedence over most
- >others, therefore I may use force to protect myself from a murderer.
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- >A general failing in t.a, discussing a single point as if it existed
- >in a vacuum. Rights, responsibilities, laws, etc. are all intertwined
- >sometimes in ways no one intended.
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- Right! Which is why abortion is permissible in cases of rape, incest,
- or grave threat to the mother's life. Glad we finally agree on this!
-
- >REB
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- Mark Pundurs
-