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To: TigerPaw who wrote (160944)7/15/2001 12:33:21 AM
From: E  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Clarity and lack of ambiguity are limited virtues, and entirely cold ones. They are important instrumentally, not as ethical principles. They are facilitating intellectual tools. We use them to create a decent world, not as an alternative for doing that.

That's what I personally think, anyway, about choosing the line on the sole basis of how unambiguous it is.



To: TigerPaw who wrote (160944)7/15/2001 12:49:58 AM
From: SecularBull  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
I argue that outlawing abortion is the ultimate of the least ambiguous. Be careful to argue against me. You'd be in a paradox with your own professed argument.

~SB~


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