Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuxlm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!whuxlm!mag From: mag@whuxlm.UUCP (Gray Michael A) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Who's Life Anyway? Message-ID: <785@whuxlm.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 14:56:13 EDT Article-I.D.: whuxlm.785 Posted: Sun Jun 30 14:56:13 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 05:20:31 EDT References: <556@bgsuvax.UUCP> <283@vaxwaller.UUCP> <710@ihlpg.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany Lines: 27 > Come on. You didn't answer the question. Every freedom carries > responsibility with it. If you want the freedom, you had best be ready for > the responsibility. > > Jean Marie Diaz I've heard this unsupported assertion all over the place, and I have no idea why people keep on saying it. Please tell me: 1) What is your evidence that every freedom possesses a corresponding responsibility? 2) Why should a freedom be so linked? Please avoid answers and examples such as, "Freedom to drive carries a corresponding responsibility to do so responsibly." They are not applicable, and the freedom and the responsibility just mentioned are coincidental, not logically linked. In the case being argued in this newsgroup, people are saying things like, "Freedom to engage in sexual intercourse carries the corresponding responsibility to be prepared to use contraceptives or care for a child." How is this more true than saying, "Freedom to engage in sexual intercourse carries the corresponding responsibility to be prepared to have an abortion." (?) Mike Gray