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- From: smithmc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Lost Boy)
- Subject: Re: will we pro-choicers be sorry?
- Message-ID: <BxzD0E.CwB@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
- References: <markts.721791228@mcl> <1ebgebINN3rl@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:31:25 GMT
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- In article <1ebgebINN3rl@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- >In article <markts.721791228@mcl> markts@mcl.ucsb.edu (mark.) writes:
- >>
- >> a fundy friend of mine asked me the other day:
- >> "won't you feel sorry when you get to heaven
- >> and god tells you that those fetuses were alive?"
- >
- >No need to wait until you get to heaven. Ask a pregnant woman if a foetus is
- >alive, or ask a doctor (hint: the doctor is less likely to slap you in the
- >face).
-
- The argument is not wheither the foetus is medically alive. THe argument
- is wheither the foetus is Human and has a Soul.
-
- I'm not going to feel *that* sorry when and if God tells me that the
- bacteria that my body kills off are alive. And I'll be really damn glad
- if I find out that my recently passed-away dog has a soul and is waiting
- in Heavan or whatever is on the other side. As for the foetus, I really
- can't see how those things can have souls until they develop a brain with
- which they can experience. Until then, it is not human, and killing it
- is not homocide.
- >
- >> if i thought that even might happen, i would be
- >> sorry indeed. but it won't. because they are
- >> not. you are entitled to your own opinion,
- >> even if its wrong.
- >
- >As are you.
-
- Well, Hell, why don't we just say we're *all* wrong! When's the last time
- *YOU* were certain beyond a shadow of doubt that God existed?
- If I was saying only things I abso-damn-lutely know are right, I'd end up
- with a bunch of boring posts that look like this:
-
- 1) I know that I must exist, even if everything else I know is completely
- false.
- 2) An assertion cannot be both true and false at the same time.
-
- >
- >> mark.
- >
- >--
- >Frank.ODwyer@ap.mchp.sni.de "You take slaves when you make us free,
- > when you make us free your way"
- > World Party - 'Ain't going to come til I'm ready'
-
- Lost Boy
-
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