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Re: Abortion, consistent with the LP stance? (Re: From Harry Browne
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:52:51 GMT
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(johnneal@)StopSpammers(uswest.net)
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Scott A wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> >
> >
> > Scott A wrote:
> >
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> > > > The whole problem of the abortion debate is that it is actually *two*
> > > > debates intertwined into one. One, whether the government has the right
> > > > to tell one what one can do with one's body (most would say no),
> > >
> > > This issue aside, I can't agree with this. Goverment should also protect us
> > > from ourselves.
> >
> > Government should protect us from ourselves??? This is an absurd statement in
> > my mind (see my statement about avoiding personal responsibility), but I sense
> > a fundamental disagreement here as to the purpose of government and will agree
> > to disagree.
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> I agree :)
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> >
> > > If one were to decide to take ones own life, one would
> > > expect "government" to get involved.
> > >
> > > > and
> > > > whether one has the right to take the life of another (most would say
> > > > no).
> > >
> > > Perhaps. However, a man was democratically executed in Texas last-night(?).
> >
> > Scott Simpson in the post above differentiates very well the difference
> > between ending the life of an innocent fetus, and ending the life of a brutal
> > murderer, etc. My statement assumed unjustified taking of a life. Government
> > executions of convicted criminals are just (assuming a fair trial).
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> The problem here is what is "unjustified" to you may be OK to me - or vise
> versa. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one too.
Well, not what "unjustified" means to *me*, but to what society says. In the case
of capital punishment, society may say that *that* is justice; therefore
executions are justified in the eyes of that society. If you mean to agree to
disagree that society should never punish crimes with executions, than okay. I
actually tend to agree.
-John
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> Scott A
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