Group: rec.arts.movies.past-films
From: calvin
Date: Friday, February 22, 2008 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: Paris, Texas

On Feb 22, 7:27=A0pm, RogerM <...@> wrote:
> calvin wrote:
>
> > On Feb 22, 1:30 pm, RogerM <...@> wrote:
> > > calvin wrote:
> > > > I consider all human foetuses to be human. =A0I just think that
> > > > viability to be the time at which 'choice' should end.
> > > > So, what is a less arbitrary point than viability?
>
> > > Conception.
>
> > We seem to have here some left, right, and middle views
> > on abortion. =A0But I'm curious about how you came to
> > be on the right for this one issue, when you appear to
> > be solidly on the left for other issues that have come up.
>
> It is because, (as I have stated repeatedly in this and other venues) I
> judge each issue on its own merits. I am opposed to the forced ending of
> an unwilling human life, whether it is state-sponsered (like the death
> penalty), or independent (like abortion).
>
>
>
> > You are an avowed socialist, and an emphatic anti-
> > capitalist, as well as being anti-war and anti-Bush.
> > Are there other issues for which you jump the fence,
> > or is this the only one?
>
> The fence others have erected to remind themselves of which group they
> belong to? I have never been much for group activities. I prefer to
> think for myself.
>
> Let's see - I am opposed to gay marriage rights and hate crime laws. I
> just woke up, so that is all I can think of right now.
>
> I'm also opposed to most reproductive technologies, but I don't know
> which side of the fence that would place me on.
>
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