Family life
Sir, —It is ridiculous for Vernon Wilkinson (July 3) to posit A.I.D.S. and the pill as refuting those parts of my proposition that “sexual diseases” and "permissive hedonism” (his words) have always been the case (June 26). Since A.I.D.S. and the pill, respectively, are simply new members of the class of “sexual diseases,” and that class he understands, to be “permissive
hedonism,” my proposition remains intact. Although he artfully shifts his original “permissive hedonism” (June 21) to accommodate his example of “present permissive hedonism,” it is futile. He might as well say that a “present” example of computer fraud demonstrates fraud has not always been the case. One hopes the level of argument in his “20,000-word treatise on the need for a global ethic” is superior to his present offerings. Since this “treatise” was cited by its author as proof of hip knowing what he is talking about, I await its publication. — Yours, etc., DAVID SHANKS. July 4, 1986.
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