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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Preservation of Ones Species
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.084919.3599@s1.gov>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 08:49:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.182450.19786@ncsu.edu> dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <92361@bu.edu> kane@buast7.bu.edu (Hot Young Star) writes:
- :
- :: I remember Suzanne Forgach arguing that all (at least mammalian) species
- :: do not kill their young, and that as humans this should be natural to us
- :: as well. All as an argument against any abortion.
- ::
- :: Apparently, the male pecking order in lion prides is so competitive that
- :: when the honcho dies or leaves the pride, the second-in-command male kills
- :: all of the newborn cubs of the former leader.
- :
- :After a male lion drives out a rival male lion from the pride,
- :the new male lion will often kill the rival male lion's cubs
- :because that's the only way to get the lioness into "heat".
- :After the cubs are killed, the male lion can mate with the
- :lioness and pass his genes onto the next generation of lions.
- :Since the victorious male lion will often be stronger and braver
- :than the loser, this will have the effect of removing the
- :weaker lion's genes from the gene pool and substituting
- :the stronger lion's genes.
- :
- :I don't think you want to apply this idea to the human race.
-
- I guess that makes you an ultraliberal, a believer in social
- programs to help all those losers who ought to simply starve.
-
- /Loren
-