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- From: vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ()
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- References: <1h536uINNcpl@meaddata.meaddata.com> <1992Dec24.234313.26934@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1992Dec28.075957.19167@wetware.com> <1992Dec28.154215.13989@rchland.ibm.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:52:12 GMT
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- jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec28.075957.19167@wetware.com>, drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
- >|> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
- >|>
- >|> ]
- >|> ] I read this and was sickened by it. All I've got to say is that's what
- >|> ] the death penalty is for. I honestly hope those three killers get the
- >|> ] gas chamber, no appeals.
- >|> ]
- >|> ] Call me crude, but something must be done.
- >|> ]
- >|> ] Simon
- >|> ]
- >|>
- >|>
- >|> thanks simon, I was often confused about
- >|> your commitment to the sanctity of all human life....
-
- >This is the same attitude I have seen from pro-lifers
- >all along. They'll get arrested to save a life, but
- >once the baby is born they could care less. Try to get
- >some of these folks to support social programs like
- >WIC or foodstamps. It's a hoot!
-
-
- >Jared Dahl
- >Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.
- >Don't send e-mail - I won't get it.
-
-
- Blah blah blah.. how many times have we heard this ludicrous argument.
- In taking a life a murderer forfeits his rights because he has WILLINGLY
- with MALICE ended another person's life and given evidence that he cannot
- be trusted to participate in society. Laws are designed not only to enforce
- morals, but to teach them (Why does it seem like I keep saying this...).
- The only way a law can teach is if the punishment fits the crime and
- if it is executed SWIFTLY.
-
- An unborn baby has undertaken no conscious action of any kind, nor with
- any malice, to threaten any member of society. Thus, without due process,
- it is your contention that this baby be found guilty of nothing and
- sentenced to death for it.
-
- The resistance you hear from "us" concerning social programs is not
- a result of our lack of respect or concern for human life, rather it is
- from the opposite, our concern for human life. Creating a welfare state
- inhibits people's belief in themselves, promotes and reinforces their
- feelings of helplessness rather than encouraging the desire to change their
- situation by themselves, and punishes those who have accepted the
- responsibility for their own destiny (ie. people who work).
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- This is not meant to imply that certain situations don't exist where some
- assistance is warranted, but rather that many more exist that would be
- better solved by encouraging self-dependence rather than state-dependence.
-
-
- Edward Simmonds
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