Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:00:29 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

Right now I am a pretty disgusted righteous rightie. I should know better
because after 14 years of reading his daily contributions to the NG, I know
Harry and I shouldn't allow him to get to me. He gets his jollies posting
offensive comments, designed to incite, just to watch people react. He's
proud of his writing prowess but abuses it using his inventory of
opprobrious words and phrases in an attempt to bully or belittle others to
further his POV. To him it's like plucking the wings off of flies and
watching them die. Tough guy, huh?

Interesting way to put it. And dead on.


What about a woman forced to risk her life to take a pregnancy to term?
Or a child forced to carry her own father's baby? Is anti-abortion
rhetoric going to help a heroin addict deliver a child with severe
mental deficiencies? Maybe the Christian Coalition would like to adopt
all children born with severe mental and physical deformities, whose
life would only last for a few months? Is this the sanctity of life
these groups extol?

Reproductive rights preserves the rights of the living and often spares
an infant needless suffering. So what is it that the conservatives are
fighting for, anyway? Life at any cost? A utilitarian protection of the
rights of the majority, over the few? Sounds a lot like the ethics of
war. But, then again, that's a conservative value too.