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: <233@looking.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 00:00:00 EST Article-I.D.: looking.233 Posted: Thu Dec 20 00:00:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 02:52:14 EST References: <156@tekchips.UUCP> Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont Lines: 13 The whole point here is that we in the pro-choice camp want a society with as little enforced morality as possible. In general the rule is, "The more subjective the morality, the less there should be a law." Abortion is very clearly a matter of much more subjective morality than slavery. And that's the difference, plain and simple. How do we define objective morality? It's tough, but I think we must start from a passive state - which is to say we allow things that don't infringe on the desires of others, and only disallow things when there is a very clear large (like >90%) majority that want it. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473