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- From: stevens@eatdust (John Stevens)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity
- Subject: Re: Observations
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.035504.12774@advtech.uswest.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 03:55:04 GMT
- References: <a3andz+.ray@netcom.com> <1992Aug31.145731.12606@advtech.uswest.com> <1992Sep2.205935.9428@coopsol.com>
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- In article <1992Sep2.205935.9428@coopsol.com> gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga) writes:
- ><1992Aug31.145731.12606@advtech.uswest.com> stevens@eatdust (John Stevens) said:
- >>In article <a3andz+.ray@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >
- >Please answer this simple question directly: If you come to me with a
- >problem and I say, "It's your decision, your choice", how does that
- >qualify as imposing my belief on you? I'm speaking in the context of
- >abortion, ok?
-
- I've answered this so many times, I'm begining to be quite certain that
- nobody reads my replies.
-
- In your above example, it does not impose a belief on me. But this example
- is poorly chosen. Try: if there is a problem involving you and me, and
- you make a decision on how to deal with that problem unilaterally, you
- enforce your BELIEF of the appropriateness of your actions on me.
-
- >You're beginning to sound an awful lot like Tommy Kelly.
-
- And you are begining to remind me of a fundamentalist preacher who argued
- against evolution by simply ignoring anything that he couldn't explain
- away.
-
- >Gordon
-
- John
- stevens@uswest.com
-