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- From: snorthc@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Stephen Northcutt - K31)
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- Subject: Re: Still Light On History????
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:08:25 GMT
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- Kevin Darcy writes:
- >First, we need to weigh the social costs of those few pro-life activists
- >who are injured while chained to abortion doors against the massive
- >economic benefits of not having to support 1.6 million unwanted children
- >a year,
-
- Funny, I am aging. Eventually I shall retire. There needs to be a workforce
- after me... don't get me wrong, I don't figure I have a snowball's chance
- of seeing a dime of social security... but nothing comes from nothing and
- 1.6 million children *could* be a serious component to growing GDP.
-
- Children, not just the 1.6 M we flush down the toilet, but all of them
- are our most important natural renewable resource, always have been.
-
- >>Any time an utilitarian argument is used to take
- >>a right from one group and give it to another, a similar argument can
- >>be found to do the reverse.
-
- >Huh? Can you give an example of this?
-
- Done, the aging USA workforce is gonna be a serious problem within, 15
- years, we are all gonna wish we hadn't roto rootered so many children,
- especially with a 20 year latency to deploy them as workers.
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