[Vision2020] Live and Let Live?

[Tom Hansen]

Do you realize that as recent as 20 years ago, Idaho state laws were tougher
on fishing out of season than they were on drunk driving and spousal abuse.

We've come a long way and we have along way to go.

Take care,

Tom Hansen
UI '96

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-admin@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com]On
> Behalf Of Sara Anderson
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 12:41 PM
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Live and Let Live?
>
>
> Dan,
>
> "Slavery this,
> topless that, does any of it really matter in the big scheme of things?"
>
> I don't know about you, but I think slavery does matter in the
> big scheme of things.  Slavery in the Southern US may have been a
> "complicated" issue, but it is not a complicated moral issue:
> slavery is wrong.  There is no moral excuse for one person (of
> whatever faith or non-faith) to own another.  Racial diversity
> may exist amongst Christ Church members.  This does not excuse a
> dismissive attitude towards the unspeakable cruelty that slavery
> necessarily creates - and does not erase the context of racism so
> inextricable with the US' history with slavery.
>
> A few weeks ago, there was a letter to the editor of the Argonaut
> where (and I'm paraphrasing) it was stated that if a man beats
> his wife, this does not make the institution of marriage a bad
> thing.  This may be true, but if the institution of marriage
> creates a relationship between a husband and wife that gives
> absolute power to the husband, and abolishes the autonomy of the
> wife, the power differential necessarily leads to abuses.  This
> makes the institution itself wrong.
>
> The comparison to slavery is obvious.
>
> - Sara Anderson
>
>