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From: marco@andromeda.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Sure, let's all pass laws based on B.S. Logic ? what's that?
Message-ID: <524@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Sat, 9-Aug-86 12:26:14 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  9 12:26:14 1986
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Summary: Maybe this doesn't belong here. But I don't care.

In article <877@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, rat@tybalt.caltech.edu.Caltech.Edu@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Ray Trent) writes:
> In article <509@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU> marco@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU (the wharf rat) writes:
> >The very fact that *ALL THIS IS YOUR OR MINE OR WHOMEVER'S OPINION* IS
> >THE VERY REASON WE **SHOULD NOT PASS LAWS** ABOUT IT. 
> 
> How does it follow from "X is a matter of opinion" that "we should not
> pass laws about X"?  Hint:  it doesn't.

	Since laws function to restrict the actions of others, they should
be based on logic, not religon, intuition, opinion, or any other garbage.
An opinion is an "stronger than impression, but less strong than positive
knowledge".  Laws should be limited to the reality of positive knowledge,
not based on someone's half-assed guess about truth.  Since no opinion is
more true than another, there can be no basis for passing laws based on
opinions.  Just think of all the opinions you'd hate to see made law.  The
above is why they should never be.  Your reasoning is the reason so many of
them are.
                      Down with half-baked opinions masquerading as truth!,

                                                   the wharf rat
In *my* opinion, it's *not* killing a baby.