From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Aug 26 2001 - 22:13:41 MDT
>From: "Jerry Mitchell" <jmitch12@tampabay.rr.com>
> > >From: "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com>
> > >I think deadbeats who bring children into the world without
> > the means to
> > >adequately support them should be punished for this
> > unconscionable abuse
> > >and
> > >negligence, and the children should be placed with more responsible
> > >parents.
> >
> > A few questions:
> >
> > What of the inalienable right to procreate? Should that be
> > limited only to
> > the fiscally fit? Should that right be denied to the poor?
> > If so, why
> > don't we just sterilize everyone living in poverty until they
> > can prove that
> > they are financially responsible enough to have the procedure
> > reversed?
> > Sound a little Orwellian?
> >
> > Do you think children would be better off in foster care than
> > with their own
> > loving parents, simply because the parents are poor? Have
> > you ever known
> > anyone raised in the foster care system?
> >
> > -Zero
>
>Straw man here as I see it. Just because someone SHOULDNT havent children
>doesnt mean they dont have a right to have them. I personally think you
>shouldnt drink alchol, but you certainly have the right.
Definitely a straw man argument. But I didn't set it up. I merely pointed
out what a defenseless argument it is. (For those having difficulty
following: the "straw man" is the argument that people who have kids without
the resources sans subsidization to support them should have their kids
taken away.)
-Zero
"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)
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