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- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 19:37:27 GMT
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- parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker) writes:
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- >cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb) writes:
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- >>All right, so I'm new. COuld you please explain the sentience thing again, and
- >>why it's ok to kill humans that aren't sentient?
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- >>Thanks
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- >Well, it sorta goes like this...
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- >Is it "ok" to kill animals? I mean *when there is a compelling reason*...
- >even when the animal hasn't done anything itself ("innocent"). (here's a
- >clue, "food") Is it normally "ok" to kill another person? I mean a human
- >being who has been living and interacting for a long time...even when there
- >is a *compelling reason* but the person hasn't done anything "bad"
- >("innocent"). (here's a clue, "murder")
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- >What is the difference? In one case we have an animal that is not sentient;
- >it doesn't think about its existence all that much, it just exists. In the
- >other case we have a sentient being that thinks about its existence a lot,
- >and likes to argue about how "moral" something is. This is the basic
- >reasoning behind *sentience* as the "highest moral existence"--that state
- >which must be protected unless its existence is harmful to others of similar
- >existence (it is not "innocent").
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- >>MAC
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- >-Rob
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- MAC, Mr. Parker wouldn't know sentience if he had any.
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- He, for example, is not aware that people in comas are not sentient, and
- MAY never BE sentient. Mr. Parker would, by his own logic, therefore get
- to KILL them. After all, they are an unwanted BURDEN on society.
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- Whereas, an unborn baby, which IS virtually GUARANTEED to be sentient
- within 9 months, is STILL okay in his mind to be scraped into a garbage
- can.
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- Have a nice day,
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- Edward Simmonds- standard disclaimers, hates abortion
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