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- From: onr@netcom.com (D. Owen Rowley)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: No Liberty Without Ethics
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.230113.811@netcom.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:01:13 GMT
- Article-I.D.: netcom.1993Jan26.230113.811
- References: <1993Jan20.074855.19431@macc.wisc.edu> <18436@autodesk.COM> <1993Jan22.075753.29278@macc.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan22.075753.29278@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >
- >In article <18436@autodesk.COM> owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen
- >Rowley) writes:
-
- >jess>>
- >>>We will have many arguments within the cohort as we try to
- >>>work out what "good citizen" means in our own terms.
-
- >>*Good Citizen* is your term, I used *first class valuable
- >>asset* in order to bypass the relative value judgements of
- >>*bad and good*.
-
- >jess>>
- >That's sophistry in its simplest form. The value judgments
- >cannot be bypassed.
-
- I understand that there are value judgements involved, I specifically
- wanted to avoid the good-bad polarity.
- My reasoning was not meant to mislead, but prhaps it was too subtle.
-
- >The argument by example -- some LGB people have done some
- >very good things -- is not adequate to secure liberty and
- >equality for us all. The society as a collective enterprise
- >-- taking nothing away from its diversities during or after
- >the debate -- will have to undertake the enormously
- >difficult, fractious activity of *not* bypassing the
- >formation of ethical values. You have several times
- >mentioned taking principled positions; *this* principle
- >underlies all others in our domain of discourse.
-
- I guess so, you've sorta buried me in semantics here, and I'll be upfront
- that I don't really grasp yer drift here.
-
- At this point I think that institutionalised homophobia, and rampant
- ignorance of who and what we really are, make rapid acceptance
- improbable.
-
- Coming out on an individual basis is often a staged process, and
- i suspect that our collective coming out must be too.
- A good first step is to demonstrate value, and to re-iterate that
- ultimately no matter what they think of our ways, our lives are just
- as precious to us as theirs are to them.
-
- LUX ./. owen
-
- --
- D. Owen Rowley onr@netcom.com ( also owen@autodesk.com )
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