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- From: frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Abortion and humanity
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 20:21:10 GMT
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
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- References: <1992Nov14.192117.13038@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1992Nov16.180147.15583@ncsa.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov17.060234.6206@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Nov17.060234.6206@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- #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!).
-
- Every definition has been shown to be largely arbitrary. Your argument is
- equally circular, and equally worthless. It could be used, and has been, to
- justify the worst atrocities in living memory. Which is worse, letting
- turkeys in - or leaving people out?
-
- #Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
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