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Entry: Bloody kansas Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/bloody_kansas#7973 Post contents: @Dr. Gottfried: That an analogy is not accepted by someone does not make it invalid. It may be that they find it unpalatable because they are beholden to abortion supporters, and you are asking them to reconsider their political alliances. Now why would you want to accommodate them in their reluctance? Are you unwilling to chip away at the adversary? Yes, I can work with the example of giving a kid coke or a subscription to SCREW magazine "If you think tht it is bad, do not give it to your kid, or do not give it to kids yourself, and leave us to do the distributing to those who want it" (by the way, you meant coke or cocaine?). My analogy is to the excuses people find to keep on doing what is wrong, and the way they attempt to paralyze those who point it out. The issues may not be the same, but the excuses are the same, and that might give us pause. It teaches us, if nothing else, that such excuses are no good and that we may discard them, and listen to more intelligent arguments. As to Aristotle finding slavery a necessary evil, I imagine that he saw infanticide a necessary evil too, only he did not bother to comment about it, since the babies exposed to die were useless females, anyway. Sent at: 2008 09 06