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- From: tk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Tommy Kelly)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: What's EASY and DIFFICULT in abortion.
- Message-ID: <43940@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 12:52:30 GMT
- References: <43661@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1992Sep10.160029.2152@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <43779@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1992Sep11.165627.2516@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Reply-To: tk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Tommy Kelly)
- Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U
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- In article <1992Sep11.165627.2516@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
-
- >I doubt that anyone I know of would stop you from voting...
-
- In supporting a Constitutional restriction on certain types of legislation,
- you render the vote invalid.
-
- >}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!
-
- More curious is your request for evidence on the efficacy of an extension of
- child support legislation. Why shouldn't it work?
- Murder laws work.
- Rape laws work.
- Or do you disagree?
-
- If you proposed a hang-gliding festival, would it be reasonable for me to
- demand that you first show that there would be no danger from low flying
- jets - considering that the past 10 years of festivals had had no such
- problems?
-
- Besides, what does the efficacy or otherwise of a proposed law have to
- do with whether or not I should be permitted to have that law - providing
- that a sufficient democratic majority demands it?
-
- >...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?
-
- In your scenario, all things are not equal. I would have to
- compare the two evils: 1. A law to kill me on the one hand, and
- 2. A lack of an abortion law on the other.
-
- tk
-