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- From: cook@sunloan.crd.ge.com (Cathi Cook)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: KILLfile created to prevent flamewar
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.191054.24902@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 19:10:54 GMT
- References: <1992Aug16.155304.2078@midway.uchicago.edu> <omq5tlo@fido.asd.sgi.com>
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- In article <omq5tlo@fido.asd.sgi.com>, cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C.J.
- Silverio) writes:
- |>
- |>In article <1992Aug16.155304.2078@midway.uchicago.edu>,
- eeb1@ellis.uchicago.edu writes:
- |>|So, people, if Keegan attacks me and I don't respond, it's not
- |>|because he's right and I don't have a defense; it's because I
- |>|didn't see the attack in the first place.
- |>
- |>Wise move, and one that will greatly help your peace of mind.
- |>That debate would be just as stupid in reruns as it was the
- |>first time.
-
- Many of us did not find the debate, nor the topic thereof, to be
- "stupid". I think it would be highly unrealistic to deny that
- there are those in the abortion rights movement who feel great
- resentment over people who wish to restrict abortion rights, as
- well as those who feel great resentment over people who wish to
- have unrestricted abortion rights.
-
- Ms. Bartley said that it would disturb her for certain abortions
- to be legal, even if she didn't believe that these abortions
- would ever occur. I, on the other hand, am disturbed by the
- thought of making a law that addresses a problem that has not
- been proven to exist. I don't believe in legislating "just in
- case", which is what it appeared Ms. Bartley was advocating in
- our last debate.
-
- In any event, I disagree with those who said the discussion was
- pointless or damaging, I even disagree to a certain extent with
- those who called it a flamewar. Certainly people got pissed
- about it, but the central point of the discussion was not
- simply to attack.
-
- |>Usenet is full of posters expert in the one-note samba, who'll
- |>rant and rave on their topic long after anyone else is
- |>interested. Let them drone on all they want-- just refuse to
- |>listen. The man who invented the killfile deserves the Nobel
- |>Peace Prize.
-
- Nah, you just need to use nn.
-
- C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA
-
- -rocker
-