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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 26 May 2000 14:35:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> > And your point is? That because I drove, the accident is my fault because I
> > was in the wrong place and the wrong time?
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> In part. Yes. I think it's important that everyone understands that. I think
> the same thing about another touchy subject, rape victims. Victims in all
> sense own part of the responsibility for their situation. To some degree
> everyone who gets in an accident is _partially_ responsible for that accident.
Do you mean they're "responsible" because they happened to be in the wrong
place at the wrong time? Or "they're asking for it?" So if I start knifing
people at random the next time I'm on the subway, it's somehow they're fault,
at least partially? If so, then I plan to use that defense at my hearing.
"Your honor, I'm not guilty because I was stabbing at the air, an no one
would've gotten hurt if those people hadn't been standing in the way."
In both the case of government bail-out or parental protections, I consider
> them more like insurance providers. And I admit that you can apply the same
> thing to parents...but it seems different. I didn't get to pick my parents,
> but I just had to wait.
By your own assertion you are at least partially responsible for the parents
you wound up with, whether you chose them or not.
Dave!
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| (...) Right, sorry about that. I mean that to give up ultimate responsibility for your own situation is essentially the same thing as volunteering for a kind of slavery. It's like saying that you're not capable of taking responsibility for your (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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