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- From: purtilo@cs.umd.edu (Jim Purtilo)
- Newsgroups: dc.general
- Subject: Re: Protest
- Message-ID: <62050@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 17:31:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.005343.15148@alw.nih.gov> <1992Nov13.184538.13667@hfsi.uucp>
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- In article <mumble> ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata - FSO) writes:
- >I guess we as a society are going to have to decide whether we
- >value all human life, or just certain ones. If the answer is all
- >human life, then the economic argument becomes irrelevant.
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- We can and should value all life. But we should not forget that this
- blanket statement includes the honest and hard working citizens of our
- country. I'm sorry that some social-minded activists seem to prize the
- life and liberty of those who commit murder (or other violent crime)
- above the security of the rest of our citizenry.
-