The Cellar - View Single Post

glatt · 05-13-2004, 03:50 PM

There are two camps here.
First camps says the government has no business telling you when you can have kids.

Second camp says they do.

There is no room for discussion in the first camp. It's absolute.

Second camp can talk until the wee hours about all the different scenarios. "Should the government get involved here?" "No." "how about here?" "yeah OK." "And over here?" "um, I don't know about that."

I'm in the first camp. The correct camp, by the way.

All I can do is restate the the position using different wording. Oh yeah, and make personal attacks. Sorry.

I could talk about how I'm actually sympathetic to some arguments. That would tap into the sentiments that some have expressed, and we could reach some common ground. Lumberjim did this, and I agree with everything he said. Maybe I should have tried hs approach.

But the bottom line is either you think the government should be able to have control over its citizens' reproductive systems, or you don't. The rest is not relevant.

05-13-2004, 03:50 PM	#8
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	There are two camps here. First camps says the government has no business telling you when you can have kids. Second camp says they do. There is no room for discussion in the first camp. It's absolute. Second camp can talk until the wee hours about all the different scenarios. "Should the government get involved here?" "No." "how about here?" "yeah OK." "And over here?" "um, I don't know about that." I'm in the first camp. The correct camp, by the way. All I can do is restate the the position using different wording. Oh yeah, and make personal attacks. Sorry. I could talk about how I'm actually sympathetic to some arguments. That would tap into the sentiments that some have expressed, and we could reach some common ground. Lumberjim did this, and I agree with everything he said. Maybe I should have tried hs approach. But the bottom line is either you think the government should be able to have control over its citizens' reproductive systems, or you don't. The rest is not relevant.