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- From: mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.125414.17907@hemlock.cray.com>
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- References: <1icdflINNsnv@meaddata.meaddata.com> <1993Jan5.181125.17922@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1icpagINN5ij@meaddata.meaddata.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 12:54:14 CST
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- In article <1icpagINN5ij@meaddata.meaddata.com> johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan5.181125.17922@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- >|> In article <1icdflINNsnv@meaddata.meaddata.com> johnt@meaddata.com
- >|> (John Townsend) writes:
- >|>
- >|> }I, for one, have chosen life.
- >|>
- >|> Congrats. It can be a relatively unpopular thing to choose life
- >|> over war -- a lot of people seem to think they can "choose life"
- >|> and rationalize away exceptions for war or whatever.
- >
- >Talk about myopia. Read me again:
- >
- >I think it's important to recognize that neither Choice nor Life are sacrosanct.
- >We constantly face limits on our choices. I'd choose to be a billionaire, but
- >no one seems to be indulging me that right. Likewise, should we not build
- >things like the Golden Gate Bridge or go to war, if there is a probability that
- >human life may be lost in the process of conducting these endeavors? Of course
- >we should, if other conditions are met. The question is which right should
- >hold sway over the other when they conflict. I, for one, have chosen life.
- >
- By what right do you presume to make this choice for others?
- Why is it valid to take human life in order to protect our access
- to mineral deposits, or to build a bridge, and uncceptable when
- it's the future happiness of a woman being built, or possibly
- the access of her existing children to a reasonable standard of
- living?
-
- muriel
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