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From: mag@whuxlm.UUCP (Gray Michael A)
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Subject: Re: Who's Life Anyway?
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Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 14:56:13 EDT
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> 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