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- From: gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: What's EASY and DIFFICULT in abortion.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.165627.2516@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 16:56:27 GMT
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- In article <43779@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> tk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Tommy Kelly) writes:
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- }You misunderstood me.
-
- You say that fairly often. Perhaps the trouble is at the transmission
- end rather than with the receiver...
-
- }I am arguing for a right to vote for a law. I am not arguing that *you*
- }should vote for it.
- }Hence your question is irrelevant.
-
- You have my permission to vote. I doubt that anyone I know of would
- stop you from voting, or is that irrelevant also?
-
- }I feel the burden of proof is on you here.
-
- Gee, I'm not proposing any legislation whatsoever. And you feel the burden
- of proof is on me? I'm supposed to prove that your (unspecified) legislation
- wouldn't work? What a curious notion!
-
- }I guess I would give a "I'll consider a law" candidate the benefit
- }of the doubt that he wouldn't implement a bad law.
-
- Even an unprincipled candidate, so long as abortion was considered
- evil.
-
- Let me make this real clear for you. Consider two unprincipled,
- corruption-ridden candidates. A law is proposed mandating
- killing Tommy Kelly. The candidate who finds abortion no more
- repugnant than ordering a hamburger states that he/she wouldn't
- even consider such a law. However, the candidate who things
- abortion is evil responds that they would take such a law into
- consideration. You'd vote for the one who'd consider the law,
- right?
-
- Maybe I misunderstood...
-
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- Galen Hekhuis UVa Health Sci Ctr (804)982-1646 gjh@virginia.edu
- I'm not into astrology. We Aries folk aren't fooled by stuff like that.
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