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To: E who wrote (52381)	8/20/1999 10:41:00 PM
From: jpmac	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I think it is overstating the importance of the human race to suggest that someone who does not does choose to continue it by mating with someone s/he does not want to mate with is a sociopath. As humans, I think we have the right and ability of self-determination. In that case, it would be to cease the race. How is that sociopathic or even selfish? The earth sure doesn't need us. So who we would be doing it for? And why? As to the bait of PC, two of us expressed opinions and were considered PC for saying that we would not consider rape ok to continue the race because someone thought it so very important to do so. I could have sworn that was simply my opinion. Now I find out I'm a talking head. What a crock. If you don't give the "right" answer, you're PC. So to not be PC (ohhhh, please no) I have to say what someone wants to hear. Then I'm... what?.. oh, yeah... an idiot.

To: E who wrote (52381)	8/20/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Why are you browbeating Steven, E? :-) I suspect that neither you nor anyone else will express an opinion without changing the subject to another one because of the fear Political Correctness has instilled in hearts and minds. Maybe we just are not that interested in a question as hypothetical as the one that was posed. And why would it be anyone's duty to continue the human race, anyway? In any real life context, the only reason the human race would have been reduced to two people would be that mankind had done something terribly wicked and/or stupid - like start a nuclear war. Why perpetuate such a morally deficient species? The two would do better to adopt some animal orphan (because animal species would probably have been decimated, too). Some poor little gorilla baby, perhaps. Joan