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- From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: Night of the Living Kidney Analogy -- the Sequel
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.033702.29980@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:37:02 GMT
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- In <1992Aug21.000455.15996@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- > From article by tanj@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Ren and Stimpy's Love Child):
- > > In article rjohnson@shell.com (Roy Johnson) writes:
- > >>Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com> writes:
- > >>> [paraphrase: parent not forced to donate kidney so no forced prenancy]
- > >
- > >>The key word that makes the donation analogy fail is "continue". The
- > >>support has already begun. Can a kidney donor unilaterally decide to
- > >>take kidney back?
-
- (I already pointed out that this analogy is invalid, but I had to comment
- on the following...)
-
- > > If I started to experience health problems (such as the remaining kidney
- > > starting to fail), I sure as hell hope I could get it back. Wouldn't you?
- >
- > My husband is a probation officer and a couple of years ago he had a
- > probationer, who was on for a drug offense, who had in fact destroyed
- > his kidneys with his drugs.
-
- Melted them with paraquat, no doubt... :-)
-
- > So, his loving brother donated a kidney
- > to him. By the time he was assigned to my husband's caseload, he had
- > already destroyed this donated kidney as well with his drug habit,
-
- So then it's a pretty safe bet that his brother would *not* want the
- donated kidney back, right?
-
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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