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- From: emarsh@hernes-sun.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Marsh)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: A comment on RvW
- Date: 14 Aug 1992 16:13:35 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- Message-ID: <l8nmtfINN5ot@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <1992Aug12.171633.8055@ncsu.edu> <l8iv4cINNidr@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Aug12.225222.19804@ncsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug12.225222.19804@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <l8iv4cINNidr@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- >emarsh@hernes-sun.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Marsh) writes:
-
- >>dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
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- >>>emarsh@hernes-sun.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Marsh) writes:
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- >>>> The concept that I am putting forth is that what we value and protect
- >>>> (often useing the label "personhood") is sentient beings.
-
- >>> But then sentient animals would deserve protection from being killed,
- >>> just like sentient humans.
-
- >> Yes, what's your point?
-
- >What kind of legislation would you support to protect sentient animals
- >from being killed?
-
- First of all, I may have been using the wrong word here. Rather than
- sentience, the correct word should be sapience. I think that most
- animals are sentient, but not necessairly sapient.
-
- As for legislation, if we were to discover another sapient species,
- I think that we would have to develop joint legislation with them that
- would create a society where both species could coexist.
-
- >Doug Holtsinger
-
- Eric
-