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- From: markp@spider.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: Blackmun calls the Roe v. Wade dividing line ""arbitrary""
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:51:19 GMT
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- In <1993Jan9.075154.10306@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
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- >markp@dragonfly.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes ...
- >>In <30DEC92.17224243@vax.clarku.edu> hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >>>Once again, consent to sex, with or without using brains, does not equal
- >>>consent to nine months of pregnancy.
- >>
- >>Having sex = Chancing the possibility of pregnancy. (Simple biological
- >>fact.) Therfore: Consent to sex = consent to chance of pregnancy.
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- >Driving = Chancing the possibility of dying. (Simple biological
- >fact.) Therefore: Consent to driving = consent to dying.
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- Try again, Ray. Simple substitution (sex -> driving, pregnancy -> death)
- shows the parallel conclusion to be
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- Consent to driving = consent to cahnce of death
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- which is perfectly true.
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- >--
- >Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- >ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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- Mark Pundurs
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