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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: control
- Message-ID: <nyikos.715296199@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Aug29.144832.19929@rigel.econ.uga.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 21:23:19 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In <1992Aug29.144832.19929@rigel.econ.uga.edu> mills@uga.edu (Kathi Mills) writes:
-
- >Mills
- >>Nyikos
- >>> Rick Kelly
- >>>> Suxie
-
- >>>>Nobody is trying to take away anybody's control of their own bodies.
- >>>>We're simply making it plain that it is appropriate to apply that control
- >>>>at the correct time, BEFORE there is a child whose own body is also involved.
-
- >>>So the only sexual intercourse that you've ever had was for the specific
- >>>purpose of concieving a child. And once you had reached your objective
- >>>you stopped.
-
- >>A truly tasteless joke. But it has possibilities: properly reworded,
- >>it makes a perfect illustrative example of the term "non sequitur".
-
- >Hardly, twit. What Rick is asking is: since you feel that the woman should
- >be ennslaved to her body for the sin of failinng to "control" herself
- >"at the correct time," do you advocate the same "control" for men, and,
- >more specifically, for YOURSELF?
-
- >In other words, have you ALWAYS engaged in sex for the SOLE purpose of
- >procreation, or are you a flaming, raving hypocrite?
-
- This makes a perfect illustrative example of the fallacy of "tertium
- non datur" -- "there is no third way."
-
- One of the third ways: use natural family planning, and in the highly
- unlikely event of pregnancy, embrace the child or give it up for adoption.
-
- Also, have you forgotten that en route to the nth of n children
- there is plenty of opportunity for sex for non-procreative ends?
-
-