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- From: markp@spider.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
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- References: <markp.726100849@dragonfly.wri.com> <1993Jan8.190010.13178@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <markp.726525430@dragonfly.wri.com> <1993Jan8.220302.19457@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:37:14 GMT
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- In <1993Jan8.220302.19457@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
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- >In article <markp.726525430@dragonfly.wri.com> markp@dragonfly.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>In <1993Jan8.190010.13178@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>
- >>>In article <markp.726100849@dragonfly.wri.com> markp@dragonfly.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>
- >>>[Deletions]
- >>
- >>>>I think a healthy person's life is worth more than that of an
- >>>>AIDS patient. Almost 100% of AIDS patients will never make it
- >>>>for more than a few years.
- >>>>
- >>>You have an awful lot to learn, don't you?
- >>
- >>>When you are ready to leave HappyBunnyLand and try living in the Real
- >>>World (tm) then come talk to us.
- >>
- >>You have an awful lot to learn, don't you?
- >>
- >>Let me make this explicit for Mark and other irony-challenged persons: I
- >>hold AIDS patient's lives to have the same (high) value as any lives. The
- >>above statement originally followed someone else's statement that z/e/f's
- >>should be less valued because many didn't survive til birth. This
- >>is an example of reductio ad absurdum, Mark: disproving a proposed
- >>principle by showing it leads to obviously wrong conclusions.
- >>
- >I'm aware of what you were *trying* to show, but you did a very poor
- >job of it. Your statement about survival time for AIDS patients is
- >incorrect, unless your definition of "few" is considerably longer then
- >the average.
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- Which doesn't affect the substance of my analogy in the least.
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- >As for reductio ad absurdum...
- >You seem to be doing fine reducing your own arguments to absurdities,
- >we don't need to help you.
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- How so? (You've yet to indicate any examples.)
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- > Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
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- Mark Pundurs
-