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- Subject: Re: Life at conception...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.185151.2112@brandonu.ca>
- From: mcbeanb@brandonu.ca
- Date: 12 Aug 92 18:51:51 CST
- References: <1992Aug12.180033.9957@watson.ibm.com>
- Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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- In article <1992Aug12.180033.9957@watson.ibm.com>, Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com> writes:
- > 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 ...
-
- OOPS! meant to refer to Brendan Mahoney... sorry.
-
- > (Silly thought deleted)
- >
- > No, he's pointing out to someone claiming that "viability" and "birth"
- > are arbitrary lines that conception is just as arbitrary.
-
- well sure, that's what rja is doing, but how bout that Brendan Mahoney
- person, eh?
-
- >> PS So what if it's truth by blatant assertion? It's still truth.
- >
- > Asserting it as true doesn't make it true.
-
- Yes, I know that, I was just pointing out that it was unnecesary, perhaps
- even misleading to say "Truth by Blatant Assertion" because it sounds as
- though it wasn't actually truth.
-
- > Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
-
- Brian McBean - McBeanB@BrandonU.Ca
-