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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: The C word
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.004940.18748@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1992Jul19.005352.10729@panix.com> <nid76tk@fido.asd.sgi.com> <1992Jul22.004201.14944@panix.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 00:49:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.004201.14944@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes:
- >cj@eno.corp.sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
- >
- >
- >>When Jim Kalb consents to get into a car, he is consenting
- >>to automobile accidents, since the foreseeable results of
- >>driving include accidents & injury. Jim Kalb knows that he
- >>is morally enjoined from seeking medical treatment for any
- >>bruises, whiplash, broken bones, lacerations from broken glass,
- >>etc., that might occur in any accident.
- >
- >[several similar examples]
- >
- >>What makes you so different from women who have sex, Mr Kalb?
- >
- >I'm not at all different from women who have sex. When I do something
- >and the forseeable happens, I think I should deal with it in a
- >responsible way, meaning a way that takes into account the value of the
- >persons and things involved. If I were injured in an automobile
- >accident I would get medical attention because medical care for injuries
- >does not destroy anything of value.
-
- What is the "value" of an unwanted fetus? Isn't the "value" of a human being
- only objectively defineable in terms of the effect that their removal/
- termination/destruction would have on OTHER people, and since the pregnant
- woman _is_ that "other person", why shouldn't she be given sole authority to
- measure this "value"???
-
- - Kevin
-