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- From: lefty@apple.com (Lefty)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.flame
- Subject: Re: Clarifying "Restrictions"
- Message-ID: <lefty-211292095644@lefty.apple.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:15:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.025459.24907@rotag.mi.org> <1992Dec18.034056.24259@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Dec18.165413.8758@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Dec19.081855.14741@rotag.mi.org>
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- In article <1992Dec19.081855.14741@rotag.mi.org>, kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin
- Darcy) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1992Dec18.165413.8758@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- > >
- > >Kebbin is just mad because we live in the Real World (tm) and not in
- > >some Darcian fantasy in which it is more dangerous to terminate a
- > >pregnancy then to carry the fetus to term.
- >
- > Learn the difference between a hypothetical question and a fantasy,
- > ignoramus.
-
- Gee, there's some more of that counter-productive, ad hominem stuff that
- Kevin finds so offensive. I bet Kevin's going to be really pissed off when
- he sees this! Let's see who wrote it...
-
- Oh.
-
- By the way, is the difference between a "hypothetical question" and a
- "fantasy", the same as the difference between a "hypothetical option" and a
- "threat"?
-
- > >Considering his tendancy to
- > >argue both sides of any given question, I'd say he is the one who
- > >needs to be concerned with moral inconsistancy.
- >
- > Arguing a position and believing it aren't necessarily the same thing,
- > schmuck.
-
- Of course, when somebody spends all of his time arguing a particular
- position, his subsequent protests that this position isn't really what he
- _believes_ tend to ring a bit hollow.
-
- --
- Lefty (lefty@apple.com)
- C:.M:.C:., D:.O:.D:.
-