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>different people can come to different opinions about an issue without
>one side being evil or mislead.
Sure they can, the evil starts only when one side starts to force their
views on the other side.
> Not all pro-lifers are book burning
>anti-sex Inquisitioners. Not all pro-choicers are amoral baby
>killers. The sooner both sides realise this, the sooner we can see if
>there is any sort of compromise on this issue to be found.
And just how should women’s rights be compromised away?
>
>-David "ZZYZX" Steinberg (dsteinbe@emmy.nmsu.edu) "Time for Timer"
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Date Tue, Aug 2, 1994 1:17 PM
On 02-Aug-94 in Re: Pro-life Gunman kills t..
user ZZYZX@nmsu.edu writes:
>I don’t understand this need to demonize your opposition (and here I’m
>speaking to both sides of the abortion debate). Believe it or not,
>different people can come to different opinions about an issue without
>one side being evil or mislead. Not all pro-lifers are book burning
>anti-sex Inquisitioners. Not all pro-choicers are amoral baby
>killers. The sooner both sides realise this, the sooner we can see if
>there is any sort of compromise on this issue to be found.
I would suggest to Mr. ZZYZX to actually go out and bother to read
what pro-lifers write, to listen to what pro-lifers say to each other in
pro-life meetings, and to hear some pro-life speaches. Then, he may
have standing to talk about what the pro-lifers are up to. Taking the
words of a small sample of pro-lifers putting the best side of their
argument forward in informal convesation, as Mr. ZZYZX has, is not a
sound sociological method.
If you follow my suggestions about the pro-life movement, you will
find that pro-choicers do not enough begin to explain how much the
pro-life movement is based on being "anti-sex Inquisitiors".
Faux-liberal pro-choicers who believe that "any sort of compromise"
is possible with the pro-lifers are simply deluded. One may as well
attempt compromise with the Iranian government on the subject of women’s