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Re: News Release: Delwin Vriend Supreme Court Decision

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From: Norman Gall
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 00:00
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In article <6g3ql7$e63$1@usenet11.supernews.com>, HiThere@outtatown.com
(Hithere) wrote:

> In article <gall-0304981020220001@usrts1m10.uwinnipeg.ca>, gall@uwinnipeg.ca 
> (Norman Gall) wrote:

> >*I* don't, anymore than I support the 'right' of blacks to allow
> >themselves to be lynched or Christians to be discriminated against for
> >their lifestyles.
 
> Lynching is a clear act of instigated aggression and is wrong on those 
> grounds. Failure to support is _not_ the same as instigating aggression.

You don't think that getting evicted or fired from a job is a 'clear act
of agression'?  You have an odd sense of aggresion.

 
> Wasn't saying that. I was saying that pushing folks to make decisions 
> engenders a needless reaction in many cases. I am for education and argument, 
> not coercion.

Then you must be against any form of criminal or civil law.  If so, I'd
argue that you were irrational.  If not, when *could* we be justified in
using coercion to prevent certain actions?

Norm Gall

-- 
"A thing is not necessarily true just because a man dies for it." 
 Oscar Wilde
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From: gall@uwinnipeg.ca (Norman Gall)
Subject: Re: News Release: Delwin Vriend Supreme Court Decision
Date: 1998/04/03
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