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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Morality and Democracy
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Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 00:00:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  8 00:00:00 1984
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Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont
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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