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- From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: Life at conception...
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.180033.9957@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:00:33 GMT
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- In <1992Aug11.182610.2104@brandonu.ca> mcbeanb@brandonu.ca writes:
- > In article <1992Aug11.144923.40319@watson.ibm.com>, Larry Margolis <margoli@wats
- > > In <9779@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> brendan@cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony) writes:
- > >> In <1992Aug10.134616.27853@hemlock.cray.com> rja@redwood26.cray.com (Russ And
- > >>
- > >> >Trying to draw a bright line at
- > >> >conception is just as arbitrary as a line at viability or birth.
- > >>
- > >> Birth isn't arbitrary, just wrong.
- > >
- > > Truth by Blatant Assertion.
- >
- > Isn't rja making reference to the silly thought ...
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- (Silly thought deleted)
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- No, he's pointing out to someone claiming that "viability" and "birth"
- are arbitrary lines that conception is just as arbitrary.
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- > PS So what if it's truth by blatant assertion? It's still truth.
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- Asserting it as true doesn't make it true.
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- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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