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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PiMac who wrote (12921)	6/30/1999 8:07:00 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

You've got to be kidding! Not immoral? Are we all prisoners of our biological impulses with no capability for reasoned thought to govern our actions? If you aren't joking, I feel really sorry for you and I certainly hope you never parent any children. JLA

To: PiMac who wrote (12921)	6/30/1999 9:17:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

I am not inconsistent. The presumption is always in favor of responsibility, and a clear case must be made against it. You have not done so, but merely assumed the "biological imperative". The fact that one is motivated does not mean that one is under compulsion...Now, if you make the broad deterministic argument, I would merely say that I do not accept it, and that even were it true, the maintenance of social norms requires that people largely be held accountable...