Where on the political spectrum do you lie? (Mods: Please don't move!)

[Amanda]

I am fully aware of the definition of personal responsibility. In interpersonal relationships, there is no value more productive in the formation of a well-rounded individual. Good parents will instill the value of personal responsibility in their children, as would teachers in students, preachers to parishioners, social workers to clients, etc., etc. However, an official government position of "personal responsibility" as the lynch pin of a major public policy overhaul is patently worthless.

The scenarios I suggested in my original post on this topic are not "maybes", they are inevitable consequences to prohibitionary policy. If abortion is outlawed, a back-alley abortion black market WILL arise.....new police officers WILL be required to enforce the new prohibition....new bureaucrats WILL have to be hired to process the criminals through the legal system....new prisons WILL have to built to lock up offenders of the prohibition....the number of special-needs children WILL explode if women who fill their bodies with poison are required by law to have their children.....and taxpayers WILL have to foot the bill for the massive expansion of government that comes with prohibition.

If an official government position of "personal responsibility" advocacy is all it takes to reverse supply-and-demand laws, why didn't the government use that line to stop the bootleggers from illegally seizing the liquor industry during alcohol Prohibition? And are you suggesting that if Reagan had cautioned Americans to exercise "personal responsibility" at the very beginning of the war on drugs, the underworld criminal elements that have flourished because of the prohibition would have retreated?

The case I am making about the consequences of a prohibition against abortion is an irrefutable lesson in basic economics that boils down to supply-and-demand. For pro-lifers to counter with the "personal responsibility" talking point is, to put it mildly, comparing apples to oranges. It also tells me just how much (or rather how little) thought pro-life ideologues have given to the pocketbook consequences of the criminalization of abortion they seek. Deluding one's self into believing the financial burden would be zero may help one sleep at night for now.....at least until reality hits and the demand for abortion isn't erased overnight following the collective call from pro-lifers for "personal responsibility."

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The case I am making about the consequences of a prohibition against abortion is an irrefutable lesson in basic economics that boils down to supply-and-demand. For pro-lifers to counter with the "personal responsibility" talking point is, to put it mildly, comparing apples to oranges. It also tells me just how much (or rather how little) thought pro-life ideologues have given to the pocketbook consequences of the criminalization of abortion they seek. Deluding one's self into believing the financial burden would be zero may help one sleep at night for now.....at least until reality hits and the demand for abortion isn't erased overnight following the collective call from pro-lifers for "personal responsibility."[/QUOTE]


Amanda...Personal responsibilaty for ones own actions would reap far more financial rewards than the killing of an unborn child. You just don't get it.

I hope life experences will give you the education you need. I hope that when you become a taxpayer instead of a student you will see the light.

I had liberal views at one time of my life. When you join the real world liberalism takes a back seat to reality.