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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Prohibition and Abortion Laws
Message-ID: <223@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 10:55:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 10:55:20 1984
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> [Betsy Hanes Perry]
> As several people have pointed out,
> I defined my major premise badly.  I said 'Unenforceable or unenforced
> laws are bad for society.'  What I meant by 'unenforceable/unenforced laws'
> was 'laws which do not reflect the moral consensus of the community.'
> Notice the word consensus here; it's important.  If a man kills his wife,
> his neighbors will certainly disapprove.  What he has done is not only
> illegal, but violates their common moral standard.

Therefore, if killing wives reflects the community consensus, it's ok?
Come, now!
-- 
Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist...
						Colossians 1:17