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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: Let Keep the population down please!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.042105.18542@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom, San Jose, California
- References: <1992Nov15.041148.5374@rigel.econ.uga.edu> <1eg0utINN6g0@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:21:05 GMT
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- frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes ...
- >I note that the Christian religions seem to offer salvation as a remedy for
- >original sin, and the penalty for original sin is not particularly severe.
- >The Church of Reason, on the other hand, offers a new kind of original sin -
- >a z/e/f is guilty of the crime of non-sentience, a crime for which it is
- >guilty until proven innocent. And the techno-nihilists are not nearly so
- >forgiving...
-
- Emotionalist garbage (sorry Frank, but it is). To suppose that
- non-sentience is in any way a "crime" is absurd. It supposes that our
- very survival makes us criminals, since plants are clearly
- non-sentient, and our survival pretty much requires the death of quite
- a few plants. A similar situation exists with animals, although the
- non-sentience is rather less clear in many cases.
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- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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