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To: Lane3 who wrote (398)	6/5/2005 12:49:51 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541369

I take each small issue and match it up to my internal framework- which gives me a very consistent policy. For example, I don't trust the state to kill people, so I am against the death penalty, but I don't like to interfere in individual decisions, when I don't feel there is a compelling need, so I can be prochoice- since the mother, not the state, makes the decision (and using my framework I would be against state compelled abortion). I do not think it's a bits and pieces framework if one has a solid idea of what one wants in terms of one's own values, and the kind of society one wants to live in. If, however, most people haven't thought much about those things, then I don't see how they could make meaningful decisions large OR small- that had any coherence.