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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (7255)6/10/2000 2:24:00 PM
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<<I agree that there are many people who shouldn't have children, but I can't see any ethically
acceptable way to prevent them from having children.>>

That is the problem. I can even think of ways that might be, though non-PC in the extreme, ethically defensible. But I can't think of any ways that don't introduce the slippery slope problem.

What is done, becomes normal. "The normative value of the actual" is a phrase I read once in a book about capital punishment. (It explained to Europeans how Americans, otherwise so decent and civilized, could support state killing of citizens-- being "actual," in America, execution has come to feel "normal" to them, the phrase explained.)

It is a wonderful, generally elucidating phrase. Not a week goes by that it doesn't come helpfully into my mind to explain some peculiar social phenomenon or other. "The normative value of the actual," I think, and how some bizarre situation can be accepted by the people becomes clear.

Mental slogans. They're the greatest. I find.
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