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Topic: I love: people who don't pay attention.
One of my favorite things in the whole wide world is when someone reviews one of my essays, and then in their review brings up a point of contention with my argument that I actually offered as a caveat, or otherwise dealt with in the essay.

As the latest example, Kelpylion reviews "Of Abortion and Assassination":

While there might be many who oppose both abortion and clinic bombings while supporting the death penalty, they are usually not committing hypocrisy:

1. They (whether conscious of it or not) do not believe that abortion is murder; they believe that it is wrong on some other grounds.

2. (And this is probably more common) They recognise that clinic violence is contrary to the rule of law, will injure innocent bystanders, and will turn public opinion against pro-life viewpoints

Okay, so I only partly dealt with the first point. It was quite sloppy of me not to offer a hearing of the specific view that abortion is unjust but not as bad as murder. But I do think I dealt satisfactorily with the broader issues the objection is grounded on.

The second point I dealt with in every detail.

Also, I'm extremely skeptical that very many people who consider abortion to be murder, unconsciously really don't. But then I've always had great disdain for psychoanalysis, palm reading, etc.

#1 Oct 22nd 2006, 7:44pm
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Flame war 2006. Are you ready?
#2 Nov 13th 2006, 4:43pm
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Bump
#3 Feb 05th 2007, 5:42pm

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