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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	hyperbole: the point I was trying to make about the girl in the blue cap was that she was the only person who gave an answer consistent with the position that abortion should be illegal. As the interviewer was trying to point out, you can't say that abortion should be illegal and then decide that there should be no punishment for it. If it's illegal, there has to be punishment, period. Whether or not abortion should be illegal is another story entirely, of course. [quote]However, her answer in essence said when a woman has an abortion we have to ask here what her state of mind is or in some other way determine her state of mind and if we like the answer she gets off and if not she gets punished. You can't make that into a law![/quote] First of all, she didn't say that "if we like the answer she gets off and if not she gets punished." She said that the ruling and punishment should take into account the woman's state of mind. This is most certainly not without legal precedent--how many times have we seen someone accused of murder deemed mentally unfit to stand trial? So it is rather common to take into account a person's state of mind when considering sentencing for capital crimes. This is probably why she waffled at the end, because she realized that her choices were going to be: 1) punishment commensurate with murder or 2) being committed to a mental hospital. I'm curious as to why you like that answer least, though. She was the only one who thought seriously about what she was saying. All of the other people interviewed dodged the logical conclusions of the position they maintained. Are you saying that you liked their answers better? I understand that if you don't agree with the premise they begin with, blue cap girl's answer is the least palatable, but at least it attempts to be intellectually honest. WS: Ah, OK, sorry. I didn't realize that you were referring to the question asked in the video. Don't know why I didn't pick that up. I guess I've already given my answer, huh? [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/sigs/suho_text_factory_02.gif[/img] ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] Loading...
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