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- From: patrick@rio-grande.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey)
- Subject: Re: Can't we all just get along?
- In-Reply-To: bskendig@netcom.com's message of Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:40:17 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:39:12 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.204017.12449@netcom.com> bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
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- I cancelled my original article less than a minute after I put it up,
- Patrick, because I was in a bad mood when I posted it and I said some
- things which could be interpreted as flames. I'm not sure how it
- still got out to your site, but what's done is done.
-
- I've forgotten all about it -- how long ago was it, anyway? It feels like a
- couple of years, though I seem to remember it as being in the early part of
- last month. (Time flies when you have as much to juggle as I do at this
- time of year.) Anyway, as you said, it's done and buried -- so what can we
- argue about now? :-)
-
- One thing I'll say in my defense, though, for those readers who
- somehow got the article: There's a difference between clueless newbies
- who parade around this newsgroup saying "ab0rtion is murder" and reply
- to every single thing a pro-choicer says by parroting those words over
- and over again, and considerate pro-lifers who believe that abortion
- is murder but can back up their opinions by responding considerately
- to pro-choice arguments. (As in, "I know you feel that abortion
- should be allowed because _____, but I still believe that the reasons
- to protect a fetus are more important than the reasons you give to
- take its life because _____.")
-
- I encourage considerate discussion with pro-lifers. I don't like it
- when people assume some morally superior attitude, though. You seem
- reasonable, Patrick; I look forward to debating with you. :)
-
- Welcome to the wrangle, then -- you'll be a welcome change from such
- paragons of honesty as Holtsinger and Nyikos (and maybe even that Chaney
- guy, if he decides to come back). I know there are at least a few pro-life
- folks with their heads set on straight out there, as I've encountered a few
- in person -- and we need more of them in this newsgroup.
-
- Anyway, the rest of y'all can go back to the regularly scheduled food fight.
- I'm going to be packing up and heading home for a well-deserved weekend in
- about 20 minutes...
-
- --PLH, glad he didn't get to watch the dismantling of the Aggies by those
- slugs from Notre Dame...
- --
- Patrick L. Humphrey (patrick@is.rice.edu) Rice Networking & Computing Systems
- +1 713 528-3626 at Rice. 776-1541 at home. 667-6554 at Palace Lanes.
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