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From: scott@hou2g.UUCP (Colonel'K)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "Traditional Values"
Message-ID: <661@hou2g.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 14:21:10 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 14:21:10 1985
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< You have not proof of the degree to which child molesting and wife terrorizing
< took place in the past.  If you assume that it was just as bad back then as it
< is now but appeared not to be for lack of reporting it then on that premise we
< can make any asumption we want about the behavior patterns of a past age.
< For example we can assume that there were 2,000,000 abortions per year every
< year from as far back as you want to go, but due to lack of reporting it, we
< were unaware of the degree to which this activity took place.

Fine.  If you would like to cling to THAT reasoning, then I'll assume
that in the past the divorce rate was 50%, but due to lack or reporting it,
we were unaware of the degree to which this activity took place.

If you DON'T want to cling to that reasoning, you have no case.  I rest mine.



			"PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!"
          
				Scott J. Berry
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