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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.031402.14403@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 03:14:02 GMT
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- In article <C0K7zy.M9C@ra.nrl.navy.mil> lebow@psl.nrl.navy.mil writes:
- >In article <1993Jan6.160656.4107@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu
- >(Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>In article <C0FF9F.En8@news.cso.uiuc.edu> vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
- >>>mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>In article <C0CBty.n1y@news.cso.uiuc.edu> vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ()
- >writes:
- >>>
- >>>>>I freely admit that a preborn baby human being is not LEGALLY defined
- >>>>>as a "person". The moral and scientific evidence that it SHOULD be
- >>>>>defined as such has been beat to death already.
- >>>>>
- >>>>When? All I've ever seen is medical and scientific evidence that it is
- >>>>*not* a person. As in, not sentient etc. Care to show otherwise?
- >>>
- >>>Is a newborn sentient? Is a person in a coma sentient? Is a sleeper
- >>>sentient? Is a mentally retarded person sentient?
- >>>
- >>I'll address these one at a time.
- >>"Is a newborn sentient?"
- >>Yes. There is evidence that infants as early as a day or so are capable
- >>of recognising their mothers.
- >>
- >>"Is a person in a coma sentient?"
- >>Depends on the coma, and the amount of brain damage the person has
- >>suffered.
- >>
- >>"Is a sleeper sentient?"
- >>Certainly. Just wake them up if you doubt it...
- >>
- >>"Is a mentally retarded person sentient?"
- >>Certainly. We have a gentleman working at the hospital in the kitchen
- >>who is MR, and I don't think anybody disputes his sentience.
- >
- >>--
- >> Mark Cochran
- >
- >I don't see the point of this reasoning, Mark. Show that all these other
- >people are "sentient" doesnt show the unborn isn't. You said "sentient, etc."
- >but then addressed only the former.
- >
- Of course you don't see it Paul, but that's merely a limitation of
- your intelligence.
- If you would care to take a shot at showing that a fetus is sentient,
- feel free.
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
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