Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Diversity, what diversity?

[Bob's Cohousing Mailbox (coho]

On Tue, 2 Jul 1996 16:15:20 -0500, 
Tony G. Rocco  <tgr [at] lanminds.com> wrote:
>I was told that some people would not even associate with a person 
>whom they knew ate meat. A crime akin to child molestation to some,
>I was told, or abortion.

While I appreciate that these are not Tony's words, I'd like to voice 
my objections to the prior paragraph:

     1)  abortion is not a crime (yet)
     2)  abortion and child molestation have no ethical parallels (for 
         me and for most people)

I always urge people to be very careful when tossing around loaded 
phrases like "abortion" and "child molestation."  These are quite 
inflammatory and should not be handled in enclosed spaces such as 
mailing lists without proper ventilation.

Now, back to our program.

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