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To: 54-46 Was My Number
Is that the way you'd describe Michelle's story? I would describe her story as a great human tragedy. So would I. Your point?

Our description of the events is a description of the events in their most important sense.

It is the responsibility of individuals and individuals in community to promote the common good and to help remedy "great human tragedies," particularly tragedies that are the result of intrinsic evils that the government has failed to attempt to suppress, as is its duty.

To describe Michelle's tragedy as a consensual agreement between adults is to reduce it to the level of any other economic transaction, like receiving a fee to fix a leaking faucet. This description willfully disregards the moral component of Michelle's "transaction" in order to absolve the libertarian of any moral responsibility in helping to suppress this vice.

90 posted on 05/28/2004 6:46:00 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan
It is the responsibility of individuals and individuals in community to promote the common good and to help remedy "great human tragedies," particularly tragedies that are the result of intrinsic evils that the government has failed to attempt to suppress, as is its duty.

I agree completely with steve-b's #84 on this thread. It's not government's duty to suppress "intrinsic evils," it's government's duty to defend the rights of its citizens. In this specific case, I fail to see how anyone's rights were trampled.

101 posted on 05/28/2004 6:50:44 AM PDT by 54-46 Was My Number
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To: Aquinasfan
It is the responsibility of individuals and individuals in community to promote the common good

It Takes A Village.

106 posted on 05/28/2004 6:54:03 AM PDT by steve-b (Panties & Leases Would Look Good On Spammers)
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To: Aquinasfan
"It is the responsibility of individuals and individuals in community to promote the common good and to help remedy "great human tragedies," particularly tragedies that are the result of intrinsic evils that the government has failed to attempt to suppress, as is its duty."

What a load of camel dung.

The government has regulated the industry.It is illegal for minors to be used, snuff films are illegal, etc.

It isn't the government's place to suppress the explicit decisions made by adults to have themselves filmed having sex. The government's role is in setting the rules for the distribution and sale of the resulting film; they've done that.

You're just another socialist, nanny government advocate in conservative clothing.

215 posted on 05/28/2004 8:50:07 AM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Sin Pátria, pero sin amo.)
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