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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (4275)	10/13/2005 11:27:30 AM
From: Suma	Respond to of 541319

I have read your posts and can see validity in your arguments.. Your description of yourself,in your bio. describes it " I think, therefore I am" ( Ann Rynd) embraces that concept... WE all have thoughts about everything. Expressing them in someway whether it be with civility or anger is what Centrist means to me. I am aware of one thread that will not tolerate opines.... All of the information posted there has to be documented.. Trouble with this, for me, is that most of the documentation on that particular thread is all blogs and/or articles from very right wing publications or thinkers... If one posts an opposing argument from a more progressive or liberal thread....such as MoveON.org.. etc etc. they are sometimes banned. It's like a game of tennis that no one can win because the ball keeps being batted back and forth and when there is an out there are no referees to call the ball out... Therefore there are no winners... It's just batting back and forth.. Is there an object to this...? Most of what is posted on this thread is documented from the source. A lot of what is posted is controversial. I would imagine that is one asked ones opinion of one article there would be a response. Mary C. seems to be willing to expose her opines... But a lot of us... me included are gun shy. I just don't think sharing information is worth the aggravation of being attacked by those who disagree... That is one reason this thread if valuable to me... The feeling that one will not be attacked and often times as is the case with other threads, venomously... personally.. as the messenger is WRONG.. Maybe it's just the information is distorted or wrong. Posters should not be attacked imo.

To: Solon who wrote (4275)	10/13/2005 11:56:37 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541319

If I only queried ONE issue--ABORTION. How does the centrist value differ from both the Left and the Right?? Wouldn't it be surprising if the centrist value WAS equivalent to Left or to Right! As I see it: The left thinks the woman has a right to do whatever she wants within her own body. If she wants to do anything that is going on in her body it is no one elses business - including even to ending her own life. They do not consider abortion to be murder. The right thinks that life is sacred. Any form of life. God created life and only God should be able to end life. The center view (as I see it): Everybody agrees (most people) - life is sacred. We should not go around killing each other. The Bible (whatever) does not have sufficient specificity in defining life (on a moleculer level), but basically we should not do harm to life in any form. On a secular level, in order to keep order, we need to have rules on preventing people from killing each other. But it is not feasible to protect potential life. In our form of government, we have separation of church and state. The state will do all it can to protect human life where we can all agree on the definition of life. On where we disagree, (the definition of potential life) we have to let God be God. God will be the final judge. Everybody is warned.