Not as such, no. How to explain my thinking--if the argument had concerned the relative fiscal moralities of, say, Madoff versus Abramoff (ha, a real face-off . . . I crack me up), women as such are irrelevant given the genders of the participants and that there aren't any issues like human trafficking or what have you at hand.
But Hunt's entire argument is that one man is stepping up to the demands of unexpected fatherhood, while another ducked that responsibility; it is not necessarily a bad argument, but it rests entirely on ignoring that neither man had ultimate authority over whether he would become a father at all. (Again, other than by not having the affair in the first place.) This seems to me along the lines of arguing that Galileo was more heterodox than Pope Urban since the latter never made a public affirmation of this faith. (A poor example; does it help at all?)
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Date: 2009-08-31 11:02 pm (UTC)But Hunt's entire argument is that one man is stepping up to the demands of unexpected fatherhood, while another ducked that responsibility; it is not necessarily a bad argument, but it rests entirely on ignoring that neither man had ultimate authority over whether he would become a father at all. (Again, other than by not having the affair in the first place.) This seems to me along the lines of arguing that Galileo was more heterodox than Pope Urban since the latter never made a public affirmation of this faith. (A poor example; does it help at all?)