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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Gosh poll
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 10:47:13 EST
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>
> Lets's say murder is unlawful but not everybody considers it immoral. And
> then one day the supreme court decides that states can't make laws
> proscribing murder and now murder can be performed with no legal
> consequences. But you think murder is immoral and should be outlawed.
> Would you consider action by you and others who felt like you to legislate
> against murder to be "shoving" morality down other people's throats?
> Would this stop you from attempting to right what you consider to be wrong?
> 
	You are making the unsupportable assumption that laws 
stop people from doing things.  Laws provide a means of getting
even in a systematic way.      It is  abusurd to think that the
only reason that people don't kill each other is because it is
against the law.  There are many societies that  have no
legal code at all and people kill each other LESS.   I imagine
that it would have a devestating effect on my relationships
if I were to start killing people!  What a terrible thing to do.


	If I take a pro-choice stand, then I have to live with the
consequences.  I will not be able to have close personal relationships
with people who get angry or outraged at this position.  

	Why am I not crying? 



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