Reply #177: Are you listening to yourself? [View All]

Let me get out the scratch pad and see if I can cobble together a political philosophy to meet my own personal worldview. Let's see -- a woman's womb is absolute, and the life inside her has no rights. Check. When the child is born, though, his or her rights take precedent over the father's rights. Check. Mommy gets the choice to have abortion, and mommy gets paycheck. Check.

I'm not saying that you're wrong, I'm just saying that to pronounce such arbitrary things, as though they're absolutes smacks of fire and brimstone.

I'm not a mens' rights advocate, by ANY means -- and I'm pro-choice, but only by postmodern default. My problem with this line of thinking is that people are starting with a construct that is, by no means, settled or absolute, and then stringing more unsettledness and absolutes on top of them.