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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Subject: Re: The net's favorite form of argument (reply to Cramer)
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 18:45:00 EDT
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>/* carnes@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Richard Carnes) /  3:54 pm  May  6, 1985 */

> . . . For instance, define
>racism as "basing an action on a person's race," or define theft as
>"a transfer of wealth which is or could be enforced by the use of
>force"; you've just proved that affirmative action and taxation are
>unjust, since everyone knows that racism and theft are unjust!  But
>the classic use of this form of argument is to prove that abortion is
>wrong.

>Richard Carnes, ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes

How do you define "racism" and "taxation?"