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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: What REALLY pisses me off about Fundies
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.032439.15438@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom, San Jose, California
- References: <nyikos.721972639@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Nov19.071543.25221@netcom.com> <1ej27pINN35a@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 03:24:39 GMT
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- frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes ...
- > ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >>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.
-
- Well gee. Lets see. A woman can actually say whether she wants to be
- pregnant and can even say why. A 12 week fetus not only cannot do the
- same, but can't even survive outside of the mother. A 5 week embryo
- doesn't even have the needed equipment to talk.
-
- That's a pretty good start.
-
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- Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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