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Entry: Bloody kansas Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/bloody_kansas#7965 Post contents: Analogy is always tricky logic. Rarely is the analogy perfect. Paul Gottfried has demonstrated correctly where the analogy fails. Where the analogy is correct: Supporters of both evils argue: "it's my property, I can do with it as I wish." No one in he US defended slavery the way Aristotle defended it-- that certain human beings (for Aristotle,the retarded) simply merited by nature being treated as slaves. Aristotle did oppose slavery as it was practiced in his culture. Aristotle might have defended the child-killing of the retarded; he would have opposed the child-killing of the genius. But the pro-death crowd generally avoids arguing that the fetus is an <i>Untermensch.</i> Both slavery and killing children were and are defended by shear self-interest. Smart politics builds coalitions. If I consider killing children the supreme evil of our time (and I do), then I want as many on my side as possible. Including "liberals". Of course, there are some who don't consider it the supreme evil, and others who are opportunists who want to do their own ritualized reaching out. And to Sam Franciscans: Were Dixie free, child-killing would be illegal there. Sent at: 2008 07 06