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- From: brendan@cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Life at conception...
- Message-ID: <9814@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 03:10:55 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.180033.9957@watson.ibm.com>
- Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
- Reply-To: brendan@cs.uq.oz.au
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- For some reason the original post hasn't arrived at my site.
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- In <1992Aug10.134616.27853@hemlock.cray.com> rja@redwood26.cray.com (Russ And
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- >Trying to draw a bright line at
- >conception is just as arbitrary as a line at viability or birth.
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- In <9779@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> brendan@cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony) writes:
- Birth isn't arbitrary, just wrong.
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- In article <1992Aug11.144923.40319@watson.ibm.com>, Larry Margolis <margoli@wats
- > Truth by Blatant Assertion.
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- Which I guess is an insulting way of trying to stop you opponents from
- making succinct statements of their position. Especially when used in
- conjunction with the editing keys of you word processor.
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- To repeat, at greater length, in the hope that no-one will bother to
- read my entire post.
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- Birth is not an arbitrary point, because is really does correspond to a
- quantum change in a human's state of being.
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- Statistical viability is on the other hand arbitrary, because it pays no
- attention to the individual.
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- Conception is not arbitrary either, it corresponds to a quantum leap in
- the state of being of a human. Arguing that this leap consists of many
- small steps no more denies the quantum nature of the change than it
- denies that the hare will indeed catch the tortoise.
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- Conception and death are probably the only two quantum changes
- shared by every human being. Birth is unfortunately becoming rarer in our
- society.
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- --
- When soldiers form lines or hollow squares, you call it reason.
- When wild geese in flight take the form of a letter V, you say instinct.
- When the homogeneous atoms of a mineral arrange themselves into shapes
- mathematically perfect you have nothing to say. You have not even invented a name to conceal your heroic unreason."
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