Daily Archive for August 7th, 2007

Drawing the line

Found an unaccredited selection from one of my posts over on the Trothkeepr tonight. I’ll link back but the jokes on him because no one reads my blog!

The contention is that my anti-anti-abortion law comment can be used to condone apartheid, racism, and slavery. So, because it can be used to condone these evil practices, it’s a bull shit argument and is worthless.

This is exactly what I’ve been struggling with and exactly why I wrote that post and exactly why I haven’t done much more on it because I don’t have the answer to the question: Where do you draw the line?

Premarital sex is wrong and dancing stirs up all kinds of sexual feelings which may lead to sex so dancing is wrong. And making out and petting is wrong because it stirs up all kinds of sexual feelings so making out and petting are wrong. And pornography is wrong. And bikinis are wrong. And looking at women is wrong. And thinking about women is wrong. So all men should walk around with bags over their heads to avoid even seeing a woman and being tempted to think about things that would lead him to think about a woman in any kind of sexual way. Where do you draw the line?

Terrorists are attacking us and we need to know what they are planning so we need to be able to do all this surveillance and we need access to public and medical and financial records and we need to be able to put wiretaps in place and we need to be able to see into people’s living rooms so we know if they are making bombs. But we don’t know if you’re making a bomb until we look into your living room so we need to be able to look into everyone’s living room just to make sure no one is making a bomb. Where do you draw the line?