bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (09/26/84)
Several have responded to my pro-choice dare by noting that they are forced to pay for guns, and stating or implying that this makes it OK to force them to pay for abortions. A) I find it odd to hear you defending the militarists right to make you pay for guns, just so you can get your own licks in. That's real "pro-choice" for you. B) The anti-abortionists are NOT necessarily the pro-militarists, so don't lump them together unless you want to be pre-judged as well. I myself can't stand it when people who find out I am pro-abortion, pro-equal rights, pro-peace and pro-environment assume that I would be silly enough to be pro-socialism, anti-space or anti-nuclear. GRRRR I dislike this. I hope you do, too. C) There is (regardless of what amount of military spending is right) a major difference in the issue of defence and other issues. There is no way to provide defence just for some and not for others. It's quite easy to split up most other issues like abortion. I'm not defending the amount of money spent on the military. I think it's too high. But saying "they tax me for guns so we deserve to be able to tax them to pay for what they call sick murders" is NOT the pro-choice attitude. It's the "damn it I'll get what I want even if I have to force my opinion on somebody else" attitude. Now you may still approve of public money for abortions if you want, but don't call yourself pro-choice IN GENERAL, that's all. Instead say you are "pro-choice, so long as I like the choice," because that's what you really are. The same goes for censorship. -- Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304