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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: Jim, the chastity belt theory, and me, Part 1
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.201234.13362@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom, San Jose, California
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:12:34 GMT
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- jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes ...
- > regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >>If life is valuable in general, why do we raise cattle and then kill
- >>them? Why do we destroy the rainforests in Brazil? Why do we step on
- >>bugs that find their ways into our homes?
- >
- >I suppose all life has some value and should not be wantonly
- >destroyed, but there can be justifications for destroying life. Food,
- >shelter and sanitation for human beings come to mind in connection
- >with your particular examples.
-
- If there can be justifications for destroying life, then why can't
- there also be justifications for abortion?
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- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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