[MD] The New Socialism - Wired Magazine

[M K]

Arlo I have read your example and see that you are fond of setting up straw men. Or is it a straw woman? Am I being offensive to gender-dysphoric rhetorical devices? Maybe Dan Savage and Noam Chomsky can get together over this one. That would be fabulous!

Any line drawn by reason or bias will exclude consenting adults by definition and our sense of entitlement seems to know no bounds.  Therefore I see no end to these sorts of skirmishes. My "slippery slope" examples are quite reasonable.







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From: ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2009 10:12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] The New Socialism - Wired Magazine

[MK]
Arlo I wonder if you see a limit to this.

[Arlo]
I believe that consenting adults can determine for themselves the best civil
union for themselves, and the state should confer civil benefits accordingly. I
have no trouble with polygamy, if it involves consensual adults. Why should you
care if someone else wants to be part of a polygamous relationship? If they so
choose, they should also have the same rights as other unions to decide who
gets their inheritance, who can visit them in the hospital, tax breaks, etc.

But this "fear of the slippery slope" is a common argument, and not one that
holds much interest for me. Whatever "line" we draw should be based on reason,
and if you draw a line and justify it only by saying "we need a line somewhere"
then that's something I summarily dismiss. 

MY line, since you ask, is only about in my life what type of relationship I
want to be personally be in. YOU may choose differently. I don't bother myself
worrying if you choose differently than I do. 

So let me ask you, in the example I gave Craig, what should the state do?
Dissolve the marriage? 




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