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- From: martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: nkill
- Message-ID: <MARTINC.92Nov19201910@hatteras.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 01:19:10 GMT
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- Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
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- In-reply-to: rohwerwd@netcom.com's message of 19 Nov 92 06:36:30 GMT
-
- In article <1992Nov19.063630.20728@netcom.com> rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:
-
- >Let's try this by analogy, in short simple sentences. What is your
- >feeling about
- >
- > nkill -poison proabortionists@usa
- >
- >Is that more or less morally offensive?
- >--
-
- If you compare it against: nkill -poison anti-abortionists@usa,
- I believe that it is less morally offensive because anti-abortionists
- interfere in another person's life while pro-abortionists live their
- life and not interfere in another's life. My line of reasoning is
- predicated on when one considers a human a person. I happen to
- believe that a human is a person that has been born. Some of the
- anti-abortionists believe that human is a person at conception.
-
- And as a result, you're willing to (metaphorically) kill an already-born
- person for holding a different opinion than you. (Or somehow you're
- under the impression that "anti-abortionist" *only* means Operation
- Rescue.) If Randall Terry had nkill, would *you* be safe?
-
- (And I can't resist the observation that *some* of these people
- have not only been born, they've been born *twice*!)
-
- So long as someone feels it is morally justifiable to kill (or even
- nkill) someone for differing opinions, then none of us are safe.
- --
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