Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site looking.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Morality and Democracy Message-ID: <223@looking.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 00:00:00 EST Article-I.D.: looking.223 Posted: Sat Dec 8 00:00:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 02:46:47 EST References: <540@wucs.UUCP> Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont Lines: 22 Churchill said, "Democracy is the worst system.... except for all the other systems." Boy was he right! Some of you seem to be assuming that the democratic principle should be absolute. I would rather think that whenever we can get away with NOT subjecting something to any principle of rule by others we should jump at the chance. Democracy should not mean "51% of the population may repress 49%." It should mean that they can do this only when no other decision making process will work. You need not be anarchist to be pro-choice as is claimed. You must simply believe that other people should not interfere in your life unless there is no alternative whatsoever. If 51% of the population in a town is Moonie, should the law make us all moonies? Abortion laws are enforced morality. They differ strongly from murder laws in that quite often the murderer will support the murder laws. Murder laws don't require this 51% repressing 49% - everybody seems to want them, and everybody knows why they want them - for personal protection and the keeping of the peace. If you can't see a difference you're too tied up in absolutes. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473