From: QueeneMUSE@aol.com
Date: Thu Jun 03 1999 - 18:51:29 MDT
In a message dated 6/3/99 4:22:48 PM, you wrote:
>
>Hey by the way, what does everyone think about the Abortion Debate. Or
>how about euthanasia? ummmm Sexual Harrasment laws ummmm Positive
>Discrimination ummmm Welfare ummmm.....
This is exactly what happens when you bring up not easily resolved issues
with many repercussions. With grey areas. With more than one solution. One
falls into a conundrum, based on values, and flames ensue. Same damn thing
happens at gatherings.
I believe that most people are not as easily swayed as Danial and his mother
by the ideas of others. Especially if the "others" face off against you and
take a stand.
I agree with Tom's post that reading a few books on rhetoric could be
helpful.
Point taken also that if we are not verbal about our constitutional right we
could lose it. Write to your congressman, get a bumper sticker. Vote.
My point about the debate was merely this: I felt as if I had been in a time
. Low and behold, when I returned to the list nearly three years later: the
same exact conversaions were occuring!!!!! Now, in a group that wants to
hasten CHANGE, is this productive?
With all the love in the universe,
N
"The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need
for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer"
--Heinz R. Pagels, Perfect Symmetry
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