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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal: Illegitimate-conception Tax
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 18:58:57 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Message-ID: <1k1d9hINNdbg@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <1993Jan21.160755.6249@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan21.181027.21289@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan22.145159.14134@rotag.mi.org> <19599@smoke.brl.mil>
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- Keywords: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
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- matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt) writes:
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- >Now, Mr. Darcy's tax won't do anything to help the junkies or the
- >unfortunate victims of bad blood. But notice that about a third
- >of female victims get AIDS from "heterosexual contact." ...
- >the very relationships that Mr.
- >Darcy's tax would tend to discourage.
-
- >In plain, simple language, discouraging fornication will save
- >girls' lives. Ken Darcy's proposed tax will save girls' lives,
- >and for that reason alone, I support his proposal.
-
- I find it interesting that you think a tax will discourage
- fornication behavior whereas the life-threatening disease
- fails to do so.
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- -- Michal
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