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- From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig)
- Subject: Re: The answer (are the unborn alive?)!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.095021.10085@netcom.com>
- Organization: Starfleet Headquarters: San Francisco
- References: <1992Nov8.170316.7679@ncsu.edu> <markts.721552522@mcl> <1eb4hgINNr1@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:50:21 GMT
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- frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- >In article <markts.721552522@mcl> markts@mcl.ucsb.edu (mark.) writes:
- >>
- >> please let me rephrase: the unborn are composed
- >> of living cells. but they lack the elusive soul
- >> needed to be alive in our little christian
- >> spectrum.
- >
- >Substute the minority group of your choice for 'unborn'. Now prove that the
- >statement is true for 'unborn', and not for the minority group of your
- >choice.
-
- Easy. Find something which is commonly considered as having a soul
- (you, for example), and find something which is commonly considered as
- not having a soul (a cat, for example). Note the differences between
- you and the cat that lead people to believe that you have a soul while
- the cat doesn't: the ability to conceive of indirect solutions to
- problems, the ability to use language, and so forth.
-
- Now compare anything against the two of you. A minority person would
- possess many, if not all, of the distinctions that distinguish you
- from the cat. A fetus, on the other hand, would not, nor would it
- even biologically be similar to either you nor the cat until late in
- its development (that's biologically, note, not genetically).
-
- --
- _/_/_/ Brian Kendig Je ne suis fait comme aucun
- /_/_/ bskendig@netcom.com de ceux que j'ai vus; j'ose croire
- _/_/ n'etre fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent.
- / Nolite te bastardes Si je ne vaux pas mieux, au moins je suis autre.
- / carborundorum. -- Rousseau
-