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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: one_less who wrote (39068)3/17/1999 7:31:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
Very well, brees. I think we agree on virtually all this because as I read your post I found myself completely accepting it all. Surely all this depravity was at the surface and instead of denouncing it society virtually reveled in it. I do not think this should have been the case. Society should have scorned both the murder and the sexual baseness involved. But it only did the former.

We must have disconnected as I lobbied against killing an unborn child on the basis its being homosexual. I do not believe in a "private crime" since a crime by default creates some disparity and is therefore not private. I simply cannot see the disparity created by a man getting drunk. I do see one being created by a drunk who presents himself to the public. (Actually, homosexual behaviour is in one regard philosophically even worse than the case of the drunk, since it enlists the assistance of another. ) The cases of the drunk and homosexual behaviour present to us indirect threats, and I would require these threats to somehow "bubble up" to the surface so that we as a society might deal with them, this, rather than actively search for them. This is all I meant. I think in the meantime, society should do all it can to make the general case against alcohol abuse and homosexuality. In this way whenever these illnesses do "bubble up", however they do it, society will appropriately take action to reject them before they inflict harm. Society need not treat them the same, but it should by some means reject them both.
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