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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:59:54 EST
- From: Kurt Ludwick <KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <93023.075954KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Life begins at ...
- References: <1993Jan21.180222.8996@bradford.ac.uk>
- <1993Jan21.211342.6241@ncar.ucar.edu> <93022.013032KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu>
- <1993Jan22.202321.15474@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan22.202321.15474@ncar.ucar.edu>, kauff@neit.cgd.ucar.edu
- (Brian Kauffman) says:
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- >>>['Life HAS no beginning' idea is kicked around]
- >>Life ends, though. Doesn't that imply a beginning as well?
- >No.
- >[...]
- >EG: family trees can end, but they don't begin out of non-living matter.
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- I can tell you with certainty when a tree's 'life' begins, and when it ends.
- Ditto for a human (though you won't agree. :)
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- >Note: I'm assuming you don't want to talk about the beginning
- >of all life on earth, many moons ago.
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- Of course not. The whole idea I don't understand is that an individual's
- life doesn't begin, but it ends. You can't use multiple definitions of 'life'
- at once: first to mean an individual life, and second to mean life in general
- (which has no beginning and no ending). One has clear beginnings and endings,
- the other does not.
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- Kurt E. Ludwick | If PRO is the opposite of CON, then
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- kel111@psuvm.psu.edu | what's the opposite of Progress...?
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