Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: freedom/responsibility Message-ID: <746@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 17:38:56 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.746 Posted: Tue Jul 2 17:38:56 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 20:32:40 EDT References: <710@ihlpg.UUCP> <785@whuxlm.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 41 >> 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? Spare me. What do you want, a professional study? I won't have the tools for another 4 years or so. > 2) Why should a freedom be so linked? Because otherwise, *my* freedoms collide with the equally valid freedoms of *others*. It's the old "my freedom to swing my fist ends where your nose begins" example. Perhaps we should change it to say "Every freedom carries with it the responsibility not to encroach on the freedoms of others." Can you agree with that? Comments, anyone? > 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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I haven't ignored the possibility of adoption--why do you? > to engage in sexual intercourse carries the corresponding responsibility > to be prepared to have an abortion." (?) > > Mike Gray -- AMBAR {the known universe}!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand "You shouldn't let people drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance."