arndt@lymph.DEC (09/19/84)
Look guy. If you take the time to read the posting I was NOT drawing a connection between abortion and slavery! The WHOLE point of the posting was that those who oppose abortion do so on the grounds that it is an important MORAL issue, the same way slavery was a moral issue, so to make the statement that those who oppose abortion are trying to impose their views on others begs the question about the degree of MORAL importance one attaches to the issue. That is NOT the same thing as saying because slavey is wrong abortion is wrong!! Got that? They are two different issues. The only thing the same about them is that they involve values. I could have used murder, etc. The crux of the discussion revolves around just this point. How much of a moral issue is abortion? Some say the same level as slavery, murder, etc. One to go to the wall over. Others say no it is not. NO one is saying there are no issues on which to make such a stand. Therefore, again, the criticism of anti-abortionists on the grounds that they are trying to imposetheir views is stupid. EVERYONE IMPOSES THEIR VIEWS ON ISSUES THAT INVOLVE THE LEVEL OF MORALITY SEEN IN ISSUES LIKE MURDER, ETC. "assuming what you attempt to prove" . . . I can only say that you must be another tech type who slept through phil.101. But thanks for your conversation anyway, Ken Arndt
kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ken Montgomery) (09/21/84)
>EVERYONE IMPOSES THEIR VIEWS ON ISSUES THAT INVOLVE THE LEVEL OF MORALITY >SEEN IN ISSUES LIKE MURDER, ETC. > >Ken Arndt Murder is an issue of self-protection. Self-protection has nothing to do with imposing morality on others. You can only be said to be imposing your morality on others if the actions you seek to restrict will not harm you. Would you consider the statement "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins" an imposition of morality, or merely a statement of your right to have your person left inviolate? (I would choose the second, of course.) -- "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs" [not lymphs, or even Arndts] Ken Montgomery ...!{ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kjm [Usenet, when working] kjm@ut-ngp.ARPA [for Arpanauts only]