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- From: brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder)
- Subject: Re: What's Necessary?
- Message-ID: <BznrsE.CHw@quake.sylmar.ca.us>
- Organization: Quake Public Access
- References: <149180179@hpindda.cup.hp.com> <149180185@hpindda.cup.hp.com> <1h37s6INNfm0@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:26:33 GMT
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- In article <1h37s6INNfm0@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >In article <149180185@hpindda.cup.hp.com>, alanm@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Alan McGowen) writes:
- >>Is the Spotted owl species worth 1 (one) job? I think so. Is it worth 1 (one)
- >>human life? Probably.
-
- Whose life? Your own? Are you really saying that you would willingly
- die just to save the lives of a few owls? (What about the lives of a few
- hundred chickens and cattle?) That question aside, would you really be
- willing to put someone to death in order to have some owls? So, tell me.
- Why would such a person not want to blow your head off rather than to
- submit to your attack on him?
-
- If you are willing to kill in order to obtain such a trivial goal as the
- survival of a few owls, what would you be willing to do for something
- which was ACTUALLY valuable? You folks are really frightening.
-
- At least you think that a single murder is not as bad as a million.
- That's where we agree.
-
- On the other hand, you are willing to COMMIT murder. That's where we differ.
-
- >Is it worth 10 million jobs? Or ten million human lives?
-
- Who elected you God anyway? Those lives don't belong to you.
-
- >>The answer isn't so clear. If I haven't reached your limit yet kick it up
- >>another magnitude or two, a hundred million human lives?
-
- --Brian
-