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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Laura's philosophy of goodness
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Date: Sat, 31-Mar-84 19:16:39 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 31 19:16:39 1984
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>> Now it is a known fact that I can not do all my goods at the same
>> time. This is where the most important matter of human freedom of
>> choice comes in. I am free to choose which goods I will actualise.
>> I live here and not somewhere else, not because living here is a good
>> and living somewhere else ios not, but because I have chosen this
>> particular good.

>> the next thing is that one cannot escape the consequences of one's
>> decisions. they are not subject to my choice; they are part of
>> the objective reality I was talking about.

>> Having a child is a good. Not having children is a good. One should
>> be allowed to choose between these goods.

>> Clearly, one can also choose to have an abortion. One can choose to
>> take as little responsibility as one can for ones actions. This is not
>> impossible, just bad.

And having a child you do not want nor are able to care for IS
responsible, I suppose.

In the squeaky clean, ivory tower universe you live in, Laura, you
are somehow able to distinguish "goods" and "evils" discretely, and
even better, select in your life only from a plethora of "goods".
Well, good for you!

Some of us, who faced being drafted into an army destroying Vietnam,
for example, have had to select among options all of which
looked pretty bleak.  Yes, even we middle-class white people sometimes
are confronted with choices all of which are bad.

So the Philosophy 101 don't cut it, Laura.  Sure, killing a human being
is evil, but that doesn't mean there is never a responsible reason for
doing so.  Well, I like to think I'd have fought in WW II, or Spain,
and so did my draft board, which asked me, and used my answer to declare
that I could not therefore be classified a conscientious objector.

Such is life.  Responsibility?  To whom?  For what?
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