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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Is Petey Ny an idiot?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.040700.8947@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 04:07:00 GMT
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- In article <nyikos.727642795@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >In <1993Jan20.071011.953@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >
- >>In article <nyikos.727475676@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >>>In <1993Jan19.062300.12195@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >
- >>>>I don't think I've ever seen anybody 'cozy up' to Steve. However, in
- >>>>the event they did, I suppose it might be because Steve has a very
- >>>>rational attitude, in that he divorces his religious values from the
- >>>>secular issue of abortion.
- >>>
- >>>So do I. Looks like you missed "Abortion and Religion I: The Great
- >>>Paradox," copyright by a certain Peter J. Nyikos.
- >
- >>How lucky we are to have missed it!
- >
- >See thread title.
- >
- I did. I corrected it to make it more accurate.
-
- >>>>In other words
- >>>
- >>>This shows how ignorant you are about the role of religion in the
- >>>abortion debate.
- >
- >Marcus, indulging in baseless speculation about my religious views:
- >
- >>Why? because I don't choose to let you ram your religious views down
- >>my throat (or anybody elses)?
- >
- >Because you equate divorcing one's religious values from one's stand
- >on abortion with being pro-choice, or, as you so endearingly put it:
- >
- No PHoney, I equate divorcing ones religious views from a secular
- issue with being rational, regardless of which side of the fence the person
- ends up on.
- You *have* heard of rationality, haven't you PHoney? You really should
- try it sometime...
-
- >>>> he doesn't insist on trying to control the
- >>>>lives of others.
- >
- >I guess you'd do away with prisons, if you are opposed to laws that
- >control the lives of others. Of cours, if you are a solipsist, you
- >cannot be hurt by this silly little dream, a.k.a. real life, that
- >you are having, so why bother with prisons? [Further cheap shots
- >omitted.]
- >
- Oh, poor little PHoney can't see the difference between a personal
- choice to control ones own reproductive life and a criminal act.
- Why doesn't this suprise me?
-
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
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