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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Master (Hijacked) who wrote (4505)	5/7/2000 1:26:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 9127

They will get one whether they deserve it or not- I don't know about "deservedness". I don't (strictly speaking) believe in right and wrong, good and evil, so deservedness is a hard concept for me. Of course practically I have to evaluate right and wrong all the time- and I use my utilitarian philosophy to decide what decisions to make. Using that criteria I would agree that people who don't think, don't "deserve" the privileges of those who do- but to deprive any one class of people of privileges deprives everyone- so we have to be extremely careful when we deprive anyone. That is actually the whole problem with this Elian situation. Some people see Juan as someone undeserving of rights. Someone who should be stripped of parental rights all because of where he lives, or how long he took to get here. I would argue that even if he doesn't "deserve" those rights (and, just for the record, I don't think he doesn't "deserve" those rights) by depriving him we set a horrible precedent that supports the kind of deprivation that we see in the German case. In order to protest the German case (and others like it) effectively we need to be clear that we support the rights of parents in all countries. To do otherwise would (as I suggested a LONG time ago on this thread) set an awful precedent for international custody disputes.