tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post1529401749845545368..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Abortion Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-67848211349096098842015-08-11T17:38:05.334-04:002015-08-11T17:38:05.334-04:00If my blog posts ever start appearing without typo...If my blog posts ever start appearing without typos, misplaced commas, etc, you'll know I won the lottery. If I ever became really; rich, I'd hire an editor for myself. I never notice typos. <br /><br />It's been one of the most busy weeks I've had since I was in school. That's one of the reason I've been posting so many reruns. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-56751799134955646372015-08-11T15:53:07.017-04:002015-08-11T15:53:07.017-04:00Came back to see if there were any replies. No, bu...Came back to see if there were any replies. No, but I am embarrassed by a typo I see. "Retire what you wrote". Sigh. I meant rewrite, but the iPad had other ideas.Donaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12097924170959207117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-6532618939080401502015-08-09T15:18:06.787-04:002015-08-09T15:18:06.787-04:00Darn. It's like you are inside my head. I...Darn. It's like you are inside my head. I'm about to retire what you wrote.<br /><br />What has changed in recent years is that one sees less of the "safe legal and rare" thing on the pro-choice side. I think what has happened is that they see choice being threatened, so the natural human reaction is to circle the wagons and refuse to acknowledge any moral ambiguities. So I can say that I don't think the state should be policing women's bodies or investigating miscarriages as possible homicides, but I don't feel compelled to say that all women make moral choices all the time--for one thing, I don't think the men who get women pregnant are always making moral choices either. I understand the polarization, but I thought the 90's Clinton formulation was just about perfect and wish people still spoke that way.Donaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12097924170959207117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-1724776165649090532015-08-08T13:09:07.086-04:002015-08-08T13:09:07.086-04:00My favorite is the sympathetic magic routine: if ...My favorite is the sympathetic magic routine: if I don't read articles that condemn my political enemies, and don't write comments that one-sidedly state all issues in favor of my position, then the "enemy" will win and slip by my defenses and be elected and it will all be because of an anonymous comment I made or some article with one sentence in it (or lacking one sentence) on some website somewhere.<br /><br />Honestly the "benighted natives" 19th century Europeans lorded it over were less simple-minded and foolish than that, in the fevered imaginations of those Europeans.<br /><br />It would be laughable if it weren't so sad.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-14658630210507693582015-08-08T12:56:22.012-04:002015-08-08T12:56:22.012-04:00It makes any kind of realistic politics on the lef...It makes any kind of realistic politics on the left impossible. And, as the last 45 or so years shows, it works a lot better for the right than it does for the left or we'd have had more success in politics. <br /><br />And, yes, the discussion was at the Big Blue Sandbox. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-2128013468403480272015-08-08T11:26:13.834-04:002015-08-08T11:26:13.834-04:00It's the simplistic "either/or" thin...It's the simplistic "either/or" thinking one finds on the intertoobs that wears me down the most. Either you post something you agree with 100%, or you are a hypocrite because you post something you don't agree with 100%.<br /><br />Feh. Children in a sandbox.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com