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- From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
- Subject: Re: BofA and UW can now support discrimination against blacks and Jews
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:47:23 GMT
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- In article <BuBHpq.E8@acsu.buffalo.edu> omhoward@acsu.buffalo.edu (The God-Bitch Emperor of Snuggle Bunnies) writes:
- >In <1992Sep8.235056.10764@cs.yale.edu> rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
- >
- >>>I dunno depend on you really.
- >>Huh?
- >
- >Whoops that should be depends... Ekr, you are really slick.. Are you
- >sure you aren't a lawyer or a politician..
- Yes. I'm a computer programmer.
-
- > I had to read each and
- >everyone of your articles to find out where you stand and I'm still
- >not sure *sheesh*.... Anyway I'm clear enuf to deal with this (I
- >think) so here goes...
- I haven't said where I stand, really. It's not relevant. I'm criticizing
- a specific argument. That doesn't say anything about where I stand
- on gay rights.
-
- >The begining: The golden rule: Do unto others as you'd have them do to you.
- Agreed.
-
- >You say: this makes it ok to cocerce other into doing what you want
- >them to do.
- It follows from accepting the golden rule, yes.
- Now, notice, it ALSO follows that it isn't ok, if you substitute
- a different "what you'd have them do to you"
-
- > Well, then (rather than some long arguement). Say I see some
- >cute guy and say to myself if I were straight I would want to be made
- >gay so I could sleep with him". Does that give me the right to find a
- >straight boy and force him to have sex with that guy? No of course
- >not. The golden rule here can be used against itself.
- Here's where you start thinking clearly.
- This argument started with someone claiming that the golden rule
- prohibited coercing homosexuals to become straight. I pointed
- out that the same argument could be used to come to the conclusion
- that the Golden Rule REQUIRES you to coerce homosexuals to become
- straight. That's why the Golden Rule is useless as a moral standard.
-
- > It says that
- >You should not force someone to do what they don't want to do because
- >you wouldn't want people forcing you to do things that you wouldn't
- >want to do.. I.E. a christian being forced to kill their child. Now
- >you can say Oh, if I were sick I would want somebody to heal me, BUT
- >that assumes that you are sick. What you beleive is irrelevant. You
- >cannot force someone to get "well" because you *think* they are sick
- The golden rule says you can.
-
- >the golden rule say not to force people to do something against their
- >will.. If they said "I'm sick help me" thats different.
- The golden rule says no such thing.
- It says "do unto others what you would have them do unto you."
- If you substitute "Force me to be straight" you get the result that
- you SHOULD force gay people to become straight.
-
- If you substitute "Leave me alone" you get the result that you
- SHOULD leave gay people alone.
-
- Which one you substitute depends entirely upon your assumption set.
-
- And that is why the Golden Rule, in and of itself, is insufficient
- to lead to the conclusion that one should not attempt to force
- gay people to become straight, which is what I have been maintaining
- all along.
-
- >*take that and shove it in your holy hard-drive*
- I'm not religious, sir.
- -Ekr
-
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- Eric Rescorla, DoD#431 (Nighthawk S) rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
- Former chemist now CM400 mechanic ekr@eitech.com(preferred)
- I will hack Unix for food.
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