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- From: eeb1@ellis.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
- Subject: All discrimination is not equal -- or wrong
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.015630.2175@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: Blatant hypocrisy
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <nyikos.713804919@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <23768@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Aug25.002241.11735@csus.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:56:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.002241.11735@csus.edu>
- chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu (Stephen A Chaney) writes:
- >In article <23768@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- >bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense) writes:
-
- >>Isn't a grown-up (ie adult, person) more than an entity? I think so,
- >>that's why we call them a person, or similar terms. An entity, as used
- >>here, meant non-person, wich no matter how you weasel, a fetus never
- >>is, nor will be, as when it becomes a person, it is no longer a fetus.
- >>Hence your statement is meaningless to the original statement.
-
- >A fetus is more than just an entity, too
-
- Truth by Blatant Assertion.
-
- >and to equate them as being less than persons, is discrimination.
-
- True. However, note that while "discrimination" has very negative
- connotations, one can discriminate in a positive fashion by doing so
- on valid grouds ... the whole point of our justice system is to
- discriminate against criminals.
-
- >The same kind of discrimination that leads friends of yours, like PatricKKK
- >Humphrey, to refer to people like me as "black ass".
-
- Utterly false. Developmentism is not racism, which is not sexism,
- which is not ageism, which is not speciesism. (Discrimination in a
- positive fashion, again ... I'm heartily in favor of speciesism.)
-
- --
- Pro-Choice Anti-Roe - E. Elizabeth Bartley
- Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
-