On Sep 17, 2008, at 2:32 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > Does "not telling anyone else what they MUST do with their body" > extend to those who want to have children? If not, please justify > why not. > > . . . ronn! :)
Given that the act of having children is unique in that it has a collective effect on population, it is effectively an exception to that principle. (And I'm normally about as opposed to taking control of people's individual decisions about what to do with their bodies as it's possible to be .. but where reproduction is concerned, the species' collective survival is an overriding interest. And ignoring that fact is one of the most common distractors in this sort of discussion.) Heard from a flight instructor: "The only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask, resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal." _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
