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- From: markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: the z/e/f's right to life
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- References: <nyikos.727473611@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1993Jan20.175022.14959@netcom.com> <markp.727721748@joplin.wri.com> <1993Jan23.072420.17232@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:49:50 GMT
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- In <1993Jan23.072420.17232@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
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- >markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes ...
- >> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >>>nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes ...
- >>>> cookc@aix.rpi.edu (rocker) writes:
- >>>>>markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>>>
- >>>>>>No; but no goldfish has ever exhibited reason or free will -- at
- >>>>>>ANY stage of its existence.
- >>>>
- >>>>>Neither has a fetus or a zygote. Try again.
- >>>>
- >>>>Neither did a newborn infant named Cathi, once upon a time.
- >>
- >>>Ever try feeding a newborn infant something it didn't want?
- >>
- >>Response to external stimulus != (reason) or (free will)
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- >Ergo, you have neither free will nor reason?
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- Reason and free will => response to external stimuli,
- but
- Response to external stimuli => reason or free will
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- >--
- >Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- >ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsch
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- Mark Pundurs
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