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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
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Subject: Re: Rape: a reproductive advantage?
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Date: 21 Jan 88 14:01:09 GMT
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In article <365@rruxa.UUCP> mjm@rruxa.UUCP (M Muller) writes:
>...  The child abuse analysis is not consistent
>with any positive cultural myths of Western society...

But you weren't talking about "child abuse" - you specifically
announced the topic as "infanticide".  And this IS connected
with what you call "positive cultural myths", as the Baby Doe
case clearly shows.

The deliberate killing of infants perceived as "unfit" has a
long history in the West, going back to Hellenic Greece, where
it was widely practiced, and widely perceived as a proper thing
to do.