Searching "comments":
| # | Comment | Survey |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | Can I write haiku? Blank square, blank mind, no thoughts come. No, I don't think so. | Haiku write you can? |
| 22 | Science fiction conventions starting with Boskone XVI. | Have you ever attended a genre fan convention? |
| 23 | Oh sure that counts! | Have you ever attended a genre fan convention? |
| 24 | that's one way to look at it... but I think the kind of group you were talking about is definitely covered under "genre fan" gathering. | Have you ever attended a genre fan convention? |
| 25 | I think it is a shame that babies are differentially valued depending upon their parent's income and race. | Do you think (human) babies are properly valued by your society? |
| 26 | The infant mortality rates for black babies are much, much higher than the infant mortality rates for white babies, right here in Boston MA. In 1995, the Boston Heath Commission published the following figures: The white, non-Hispanic Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) was 4.7/1000, the black IMR was 11.9/1000. (I will say that this number is getting better, I can't find more recent numbers, but about 5 years previously, the gap between black and white IMR was more like 3 to 1. But those numbers can't make anyone feel too smug.) | Do you think (human) babies are properly valued by your society? |
| 27 | I am not talking about the parents. I am talking about the social structure in which that baby lives -- in which black babies are much harder to place for adoption, in which poor and/or non-white babies get substantially worse medical care, in which the world is much less welcoming and full of options for that baby than for richer and/or whiter babies. | Do you think (human) babies are properly valued by your society? |
| 28 | I think there is a difference between saying "the intrinsic moral value of a baby differs by the race and income of its parents" and "the value that the society I live in puts on the lives of babies differs by the race and income of its parents". Since I can't go out and ask, "hey, society, what do you think?", I came to the second conclusion (but NOT the first) by seeing how the society is behaving. I think you could point to other examples of behavior that show a similar point -- availability of children for adoption, or portrayal of children in the media, for example. I couldn't find the quantitative data for those examples, though, as I could for IMR. The main point I want to make, however, is that you seriously distorted my "hypothesis" which was in the context of the survey question, not an absolute moral value. | Do you think (human) babies are properly valued by your society? |
| 29 | Good then, I'll look forward to hearing what you think. | Do you think (human) babies are properly valued by your society? |
| 30 | I don't see that there is any moral distinction between the morning after pill and any other contraceptive means, such as an IUD, that prevents implantation of a fertilized egg. Practically, the morning after pill is probably safer than an IUD, though a lot less convenient. | Do you think taking the “morning after pill” as emergency contraception is morally acceptable or morally wrong? |
