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: Re: Re: Morality and Democracy Message-ID: <236@looking.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 00:00:00 EST Article-I.D.: looking.236 Posted: Fri Dec 21 00:00:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 02:28:58 EST References: <4424@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont Lines: 20 Slavery is a tough case, Paul writes, because back in the 19th century he thinks >90% of the population wanted it. Odd that my country saw fit to ban it at the time. But all that aside, you seem to be arguing the pro-choice viewpoint - that society should not infringe on the rights of the individual even when the majority thinks it should be done. You're the one who says we can make a law of physical force based on majority rule, not I. Indeed it's a tough case. You would advocate that those few people who are right and moral should dictate the ways of the vast majority. In the case of slavery, we see in hindsight that they were right. But are you prepared to advocate this type of rule in all cases just because it is right some of the time? Sorry to bring him into this, but old Adolf made the right decisions sometimes - he just really blew it in the balance. Your advocacy of rule by the 10% "because they are right" is sure to lead to disaster in the long run. So we can't apply it to abortion. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473