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- From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Embryos as Property?
- Summary: . . . you should have been born a boy.
- Keywords: Mazda v. Harriman
- Message-ID: <19495@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:39:16 GMT
- References: <nyikos.724958698@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <lairdb.725057848@crash.cts.com> <Bzpx2C.87v@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.
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- In article <Bzpx2C.87v@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu
- (Herman Rubin) writes:
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- >Then there is the problem of carrying the child. This corresponds, in
- >the photographic analogy, to the developing and printing process. Again,
- >the photo shop is paid for this, but has no rights from this to the
- >photograph. Nor does the photo shop have the right to destroy the
- >photograph. While a child is not a photograph, and the analogy is
- >not perfect, it does point out the problems of joint rights of the
- >biological parents, at least until these are relinquished. [Herman Rubin]
-
- I think it's a darned good analogy! And I'd take it further: The
- whole purpose of a photo shop is to develop and print pictures. Any
- photo shop operator who doesn't like the idea of developing and printing
- pictures should not have opened a photo shop in the first place.
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- A photograph is made up of areas of light and areas of darkness.
- Without the contrast between the light and the darkness, there would
- be nothing worth looking at in the photograph. The "photographic
- analogy" can be seen as encapsulating the great contrast in the
- Universe between the forces of Light (e.g., Truth, Justice, Freedom,
- Yiddishkeit, Ivy, and the American Way) and the forces of Darkness
- (e.g., ENVY, RESENTMENT, Marxism, Fascism, Idolatry, War, Feminism,
- Pestilence and Death). Blasted be the bones of the photo shop operator
- who destroys a single photograph, for it is as if he destroyed an entire
- Universe.
-
- -- Matt Rosenblatt
- (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)
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