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- From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:49:28 GMT
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- In <lm16jfINNe66@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) writes:
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- >Well. It's been a whole three days since I last said something on this
- >newsgroup, and now I see 500 articles. To warm up, I shall jump into
- >this thread with a reply to Steve Adams' post, and who knows? Maybe I'll
- >even throw in an unprovoked personal attack on him as well, to show I'm
- >part o' the gang. :)
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- >To start, Suzanne Forgach, that spirited pro-life debater, said that
- >people who grieve the --------- are now advocating the murder of our
- >most fragile. To which Steve replies:
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- >In article <root.727561852@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
- >>
- >>Come on Suzanne. The difference is that the Holocaust was a decision of
- >>one man, who ignored everyone's opinion, that took millions of lives.
- >>Abortion is a decision made by a millions of persons, individually.
- >>
- >>While the scales may be the same (ie millions), the ideas and concepts
- >>behind the two are totally different. One is the imposition of a single
- >>person's will on the entire population, the other is individual will.
-
- >Entirely true, Steve. However, as palatable as abortion may be when
- >compared to the --------- , to Suzanne (and myself for the time being),
- >it is still one person taking the life of another, without the latter's
- >consent, or dare I say, choice.
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- Of course, it would never have anything to do with your desire to try
- and make your arguments appear to have greater weight, by dragging in
- an unrelated blot on humanity, would it?
-
- If you find yourself unable to come up with a cogent argument without
- irrelevant analogies, why not simply admit it?
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- >Paul Brinkley
- >brinkley@cs.utexas.edu
- >Pro-Thought Advocate
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Then why not take your own advice?
-
- Grouch
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