home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky talk.abortion:48181 alt.abortion.inequity:5136 soc.women:19736 soc.men:19417
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!lll-winken!snow.geology.wisc.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!ray
- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity,soc.women,soc.men
- Subject: Re: Abortion and humanity
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.060234.6206@netcom.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 06:02:34 GMT
- References: <1dq3b1INNj56@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov14.192117.13038@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1992Nov16.180147.15583@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
- Followup-To: talk.abortion
- Organization: Netcom, San Jose, California
- Lines: 20
-
- note followup
-
- jsue@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey L. Sue) writes ...
- >However you missed my point completely. If we allow for *any* sub-class
- >of humans, we devalue our humanity to ourselves. I feel that this is a
- >big mistake, witness the previous examples, as well as the growing racism
- >and division in European countries (Arian nations, et. al.).
-
- While this is a good point, it depends on a circular definition and so
- is largely worthless.
-
- How are we going to decide what is a human being and what isn't? You
- assume that anything concieved of people is a person, but that
- assumption has been shown to be largely arbitrary. If I define as
- human anything warm blooded, then your argument could just as well be
- used to argue for equal rights for turkeys (and just in time, too!).
-
- --
- Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
-