File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9801, message 525


Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 14:39:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Abortion and Morality



I had said in my ideal world there would be no unwanted pregnancies, so
no abortions. Boddhi replies:

> 	You are imagining a world where negative obligations are followed
> without question and cease to become issues.  In that case the ethos
> *seems* to be governed by positive obligations.  In a world of pure
> compassion there would be no abortions.  To create a world of compassion,
> one has to allow people the right for self-determination, meaning there
> would be abortions. 

You mistake my point. I would not crimimalize abortion. I would remove the
the need for it, if I were God, by making sure that no one who didn't want
to be pregnant got pregnant and stayed that way. My point was just to show
that abortion is an evil, if a necessary one. It has no further
interesting implications for the nature of human motivation in an ideal world.

--jks




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