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- From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
- Subject: Re: control
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- In article <1k919aINN5j8@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan28.014021.27250@cs.yale.edu> rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
- >>In article <1k7cohINNqu3@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >>>In article <1993Jan27.173349.23024@cs.yale.edu> rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
- >>>>Hmm...That's not what I'm concerned about, really. I'm concerned about
- >>>>the logical problems that this brings up.
- >>>What, that by definition everybody is then
- >>>'less than a human?' Is that what you mean to say?
- >>Yes, pretty much. May not be a very good point, but that's what it
- >>is.
- >>I don't quite see that you have addressed my point. Do you think
- >>you have? If so, perhaps you can explain more clearly.
- >
- >Eric, you deleted the portion about the temporal nature of 'less than human'.
- Yes. Didn't see the argument you were making.
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- >*if* women are less-than-human when they are pregnant and under the compul-
- >sion of an unjust government to bear children, they are not necessarily
- >less-than-human before or after. Ditto men conscripted into service. There
- >remains a 'norm' of humanness for people; it is just seized from them
- >when the government thinks it's a good idea.
- All right. I see where we disagree. I don't see the actual restriction
- as making one less than human but the legality of the restriction. I.e.
- I am no more human when the government owns me but doesn't tell me what
- to do (e.g. when I've registered for the draft, but not been drafted)
- as when it is telling me what to do (ten-hut) . If you don't hold this
- perspective, I can see how we would disagree.
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- -Ekr
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- Eric Rescorla, DoD#431 (Nighthawk S) rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
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