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To: Know your rights
How so?

To summarize the principles of moderate realism (Aristotelian/Thomist moral philosophy) as concisely as possible:

all human faculties are naturally ordered to an end.

The end of the generative faculty is procreation.

The destruction of a faculty's ability to achieve its naturally ordered end, when that destruction is not ordered to a higher end, is violative of that faculty and constitutes a mutilation of the person.

18 posted on 09/17/2004 11:26:27 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: wideawake
The destruction of a faculty's ability to achieve its naturally ordered end, when that destruction is not ordered to a higher end, is violative of that faculty and constitutes a mutilation of the person.

OK. How is limiting family size not a higher end?

19 posted on 09/17/2004 11:29:56 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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