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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (17397)	6/26/2001 3:38:47 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

My point in bringing up Kyoto to you was not to find a compromise or consensus on either abortion or global warming. You and I have been there, done that. I agree but the post you replied to was my response to someone calling the current situation on abortion a compromise. I was saying it isn't. Just as you think the Kyoto bunch is over the top, so would most people think that outlawing abortion is over the top. Just as I turn the water off when I brush my teeth but stop short of Kyoto, you can do whatever it is that you do personally to avoid abortion but that you stop short of outlawing it lest you be tarred with the Kyoto brush. If I was a firm believe in the "human caused global warming is happening and it will lead to a horrible disaster if we don't stop it" idea then I might support something like Kyoto. I say something like Kyoto because Kyoto itself is poorly designed, arbitrary, expensive, unfair and also, if there really is a problem like many of it supporters say there is, inadequate. If we have to control CO2 emissions we have to control them from developing countries as well. However both for abortion and global warming I agree that America is not ready for the laws now. I think however that if people's minds can be changed enough to get such a law passed (or a "human life amendment" to the constitution passed so that the supreme court won't just strike it down) then the law would be a little more workable. An amendment will not happen without a major shift of opinion. Tim