Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: more on feminism Message-ID: <1090@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 17:15:11 EST Article-I.D.: mit-vax.1090 Posted: Wed Nov 6 17:15:11 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 21:14:22 EST References: <2415@brl-tgr.ARPA> <1982@pyuxd.UUCP> <2873@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 25 Summary: In article <2873@brl-tgr.ARPA> matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt ) writes: >the value of EQUALITY would have to yield to the value of LIFE. What is the value of life? >than it has helped. In this area, the value of EQUALITY should yield >to the value of PROTECTING THE WEAK. Jesus said that the meek shall inherit the Earth. I don't think they need your help, Matt. Frankly, I'm a little tired of being protected. The authorities tell me that I can't drink alchohol -- for my own good. I suppose you would lobby to protect me from the perils of ethanol as well? >My point is, and always has been, that if you take ANY value, even >the ones I believe in (viz., Truth, Justice, Freedom, Ivy and the >American Way), and hold it as an absolute, nullifying any competing >values that get in its way, you can do more evil than good. Hmmm. You mean like nullifying the value of EQUALITY? -- -Charles