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- From: datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper)
- Subject: Re: Who are you guys?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.193550.6011@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <markp.726853299@joplin.wri.com> <29611@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <markp.726862548@joplin.wri.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:35:50 GMT
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- In article <markp.726862548@joplin.wri.com>, markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark
- Pundurs) writes:
-
- [deletia]
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- >A first stab at defining what makes us human is "reasoning, free-willed
- >individuality." (From this follows our rights: right to life, right
- >to free speech, etc.) But we also regard newborn infants as human (I
- >hope!); and they sure aren't reasoning. We can reconcile this fact
- >with the above definition only by expanding that definition of
- >humanity (and the possession of human rights) to include the potential
- >for reasoning, free-willed individuality. Newborns have this potential
- >and so do z/e/f's.
-
- That won't do for this boy, chum. Severely retarded individuals cannot
- reason, yet we grant them status as human beings (at least, any halfway
- caring individual does).
-
- I'm majoring in mol. biology. I can't hear, see, smell, taste, or touch
- reasoning, individuality, or "potential". Give me something physical,
- something concrete, something that occupies space, and then maybe
- you'll be in business.
-
- Tep
- --
- I don't need you to worry for me 'cause I'm all right | Dear Lord, give
- I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home. | me chastity...
- I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life. | but not yet.
- Go ahead with your own life, leave me alone. --B. Joel| --St. Augustine
-