re: #208 Genosaurer

There’s a quote (the origin is muddled, usually attributed to Elanor Roosevelt) that goes like this:

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

Whenever I see someone attempting to reduce something to human interest stories, I immediately become suspicious. I consider it a solid indicator that their position cannot stand on reason, so they are attempting to appeal to emotion instead.)

In that case you would be wrong.

The women’s movement used the argument “the personal is political” for a reason. Not because they were appealing to emotion or incapable of employing reason, but because they recognised how individual lives and circumstances were themselves political— and the political intrudes even into our bedrooms.

You can’t discuss the abortion argument without discussing individual lives, because that is what it is fundamentally about: individual women, their lives, and their right to control their lives and bodies.