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- From: markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: Mark is playing Devil's Advocate, and badly? (Re: Who are you guys?)
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:34:27 GMT
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- In <29531@oasys.dt.navy.mil> bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense) writes:
-
- >In talk.abortion, markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>In <1993Jan10.220646.246@Princeton.EDU> datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David A
- >>aron Tepper) writes:
- >]>>In article <markp.726677631@spider.wri.com>, markp@spider.wri.com (Mark
- >]>>Pundurs) writes:
-
- >]]>>cases, the z/e/f dies. The only difference is the circumstances of
- >]]>>the conception.
- >]>>>Which IS an important difference.
- >>>Not to the z/e/f it isn't!
- >>But it is to the mother.
-
- >Abortion is either wrong, or it is not.
-
- Here's your mistake. No serious ethical questions are this absurdly
- simple.
-
- Compare: The use of force is either wrong, or it is not. If it is wrong,
- you may not use force to prevent someone from killing you. If it is not
- wrong, then anyone who wants may use force however he wants.
-
- >If it is wrong, you're propogating
- >a wrong for another wrong, giving the proverbial two wrongs make a right.
- >This is contradictory, not to mention assinine. That leaves one other
- >case, that abortion is not wrong, in which case it would be wrong to
- >deny it to those who want/need it.
-