From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
Newsgroups: misc.legal
Subject: Re: ProMaleChoice
Summary: No sympathy here for Studs'n'Sluts and Drunks
Keywords: flesh and blood
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:06:51 GMT
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.

In article <92201.213847JLB155@psuvm.psu.edu> JLB155@psuvm.psu.edu 
(Jennifer Bernold) writes:

>In article <18963@smoke.brl.mil>, matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt) 
>says:

>>Compare the situations where a kid receives, from his PARENT,
>>
>> (1) Love and bread;  (2) No love, but bread;  (3) Neither love nor bread.
>>
>>Sure, (1) is better for the child than (3).  Is Mr. Darcy saying that (3)
>>is better for the child than (2)?  [Matt Rosenblatt]

>I'd say that its much better for the parent, if they can have the option
>of (3).   [Jennifer Bernold]

And the child be damned, right?

>>My primary concern is the welfare of little kids who have no say
>>in their parents' antics.  . . . And grown-ups' freedom from responsibility
>>for their actions, at their children's expense, does not come last
>>on my list of concerns.  It does not appear on that list at all.
>>Neither does "gender equality."  [Matt Rosenblatt]

>Notice that his primary concern is not for "adults".  It's not for people
>who have learned so much more than this child.  [Jennifer Bernold]

Since when does having "learned so much more" qualify one for 
more concern?

>      The child must learn all
>these things by him/herself...just like the rest of us are doing now.
>This child will become an adult.  [Jennifer Bernold]

No, he won't.  Not if he doesn't get enough to eat.  If no adult has
to bear the responsibility for feeding him, he will die long before
he ever reaches the age of adulthood.

>You know what I would hope would happen?  You go out with your buddies one
>night, find a girl, and have sex with her.  [Jennifer Bernold]

Sounds like something that Studs'n'Sluts would do.

>Of course, you don't remember
>any of this, because you were bombed out of your gord.  [Jennifer Bernold]

Sounds like something a Junkie would do.  Someone who drinks for the sake 
of getting "bombed" is no less of a Junkie than someone who smokes pot 
for the sake of getting "stoned."

>However, nine months
>later you're being sued for child support of a child, of a WOMAN, you don't
>even know.  Yet it can be proved genetically that you're the father.
>Now what do you think your rights are?
>Nothing.  
. . .
>It's now your responsibility, like it or not.   [Jennifer Bernold]

And that is as it should be.  If I acted in the contemptible manner
that Miss Bernold describes, viz., as a "Studs'n'Sluts" alcohol Junkie,
I would not deserve to be freed from responsibility for the child I had
so irresponsibly conceived.  And in fact, I'd consider myself lucky
if I had not contracted some sort of loathesome venereal disease.

A man's child is his own flesh and blood.  How can he turn his back
on him and just walk away?

					-- Matt Rosenblatt
                                        (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)

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    "White feminists say that they are the sisters of Black women,
     Ask you to join their women's movement,
     And then they want to give you five hundred reasons why
     You should leave your Black man
     And let them eat your . . ."
           -- Sister Souljah
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