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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: What REALLY pisses me off about Fundies
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.071543.25221@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom, San Jose, California
- References: <nyikos.721352819@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Nov11.102809.21046@hemlock.cray.com> <nyikos.721972639@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:15:43 GMT
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- nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes ...
- > mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson) writes:
- >> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >>>A sentient fetus is a "person" in the phenomenological sense of the
- >>>word.
- >>>
- >>This statement is not correct.
- >
- >It is correct, you simply refuse to seriously entertain the possibility
- >that there is such a thing as a sentient fetus.
-
- And you refuse to seriously entertain the possibility that there is no
- such thing as a sentient fetus?
-
- >>It has yet to be demonstrated that a fetus is capable of
- >>sentience.
- >
- >So? It has yet to be demonstrated that your whole life has not been
- >a dream and that we are not all just figments of your imagination.
-
- Utterly pointless. It has yet to demonstrated that you are a human
- being. So what? Given that not much of anything can be proved
- absolutely, you've got to get the data that's available and take your
- best guess. From all the evidence I have available, the pregnant
- woman is almost always clearly a person while a 12-week fetus isn't.
- I might well be wrong, but I'm less likely to be wrong than one who
- claims sentience for a 5 week embryo.
-
- --
- Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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