(October 22, 2010 at 3:42 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote: Oh, I forgot, because in a perfect world drug addicts make the best choices.
My point.
your head.
If we can't trust them to choose to have a vasectomy, then we shouldn't trust them to raise children. Either you act paternalistically, or you don't. It's hard to see hwo restricting their options makes them more free.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
