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- From: frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: What REALLY pisses me off about Fundies
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 16:03:05 GMT
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
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- References: <1992Nov11.102809.21046@hemlock.cray.com> <nyikos.721972639@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Nov19.071543.25221@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Nov19.071543.25221@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes ...
- >>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.
-
- On what basis do you assign these 'likelihoods'? Up there you said
- you were guessing.
-
- >Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
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