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- From: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: compromise
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.034731.22901@ncsu.edu>
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- Reply-To: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Nov5.195956.27302@ncsu.edu> <5PTSBN1Q@cc.swarthmore.edu> <1992Nov7.215442.15178@ncsu.edu> <1992Nov8.011709.25856@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 03:47:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.011709.25856@netcom.com>
- ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >dsh@odin.uucp (Doug Holtsinger) writes ...
- >>auer@cs.swarthmore.edu (David S. Auer) writes:
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- >>> I do not think, however, that the legal system
- >>> should be used to impose morality. The law exists for the protection of
- >>> society, not as a vehicle for forcing one person's notions of right and
- >>> wrong upon another.
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- >> But just about every law is based upon morality -- murder laws
- >> are based upon on the notion that it's wrong to kill innocent
- >> people. Abortion laws would extend that concept to all innocent
- >> human beings.
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- > Unless, of course, murder laws are based on self-interest. In which
- > case your notion that murder laws should apply to embryos is wrong.
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- But if murder laws are based on self-interest, then those people
- who have no self-interest, such as newborn infants, may be killed.
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