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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
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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