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- From: kellyj@leland.Stanford.EDU (Kelly Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Sexuality
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.203013.28001@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <93019.113458KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu> <ZBiPXB2w165w@major.panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:30:13 GMT
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- In article <ZBiPXB2w165w@major.panix.com> dos@major.panix.com (Dave O'Shea) writes:
- >Kurt Ludwick <KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >
- >> >I don't know. But I'm pretty certain that, if there was such a thing as
- >> >a "god", it wouldn't give a rat's ass how you chose to enjoy yourself,
- >> >so long as you didn't hurt anyone.
- >>
- >> Unless we can go ahead and invent God in our own image, this statement has
- >> no basis. If there were a God (and there is), He would not (does not) simply
- >> conform to the way we would like Him to be. If God does consider homosexuali
- >> to be wrong, it doesn't matter a "rat's ass" whether we agree with Him or not
- >
- >Problem is here, that you're applying religious reasoning (hey! I just
- >invented a new oxymoron!) to people who are not members of your
- >religion.
- >
- >Unless your "god" runs for office here, and gets elected, opinions and
- >beliefs attributed to him are no more valid than those attributed to
- >Garfield the Cat.
- >
- >In other words, if *you* want to live your life according to a set of
- >rules, hey, that's just fine - as long as they don't interfere with me.
- >
- >
- >--
- >"To call something 'Public' is to define it as filthy, inefficient and
- >dangerous. The public toilet is the epitome of social spending."
- > - P.J. O'Rourke
- >
-
- This goes two ways...Don't inflict your morality/values/rules on me either.
- Boy, sounds like anarchy to me. Hey, has anyone got an example of
- a society that flourished under total anarchy. No? Maybe that won't work.
- Darn. I guess we have to get pragmatic then.
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