murder v. killing.

[Liza Featherstone]

Agreed that Singer's view is *very* unlikely ever to get anywhere near the
U.S. mainstream. Americans actually tend to be a lot more horrified by
infanticide than many other cultures; in Britain, I think, baby-killing is
generally prosecuted as manslaughter, hardly ever as murder (Brits on the
list correct me if I'm wrong). And those accused of infanticide are
generally regarded with pity rather than as monsters; there was a huge
difference in british and american public perceptions, for instance, of that
British Nanny who was accused of shaking a baby to death last year.

Liza

    
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>From: kelley <kcwalker at syr.edu>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re:  murder v. killing.
>Date: Wed, Aug 25, 1999, 11:30 AM
>


>> It is not
>such a leap to anticipate that the dumb liberals might be convinced to think
>that knocking off infants would be advancing individual rights.
>
>marta,
>well, you've got the very powerful anti abortion, rtl's on your side in
>this case.  this guy will never get outside of academia with that one.  not
>to mention it's clearly fascistic uses.  i simply resented the connection
>between abortion rights advocacy here because you were implying that the
>parent's choices might be frivilious and this was a problem wrt abortion.
>i think not.
>
>however, thinking about it, i'd guess that you would want to raise your
>arguments and intersts and tie it into the thread.  so perhaps more
>innocuous than i first interpreted it.
>
>kelley