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- From: kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran)
- Subject: Are you trying to threaten me, little man? (Was: Badges...)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.233740.12447@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 23:37:40 GMT
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- In article <nyikos.715464590@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >In <1992Sep1.020959.10514@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran) writes:
- >
-
- [Lots deleted...]
-
- >
- >I don't have absolute right to control my own body. I don't have the
- >right, for example, to drive it away from an accident I've been involved
- >in without stopping to render assistance. To take a more traditional
-
- Sure you do, Peter. It may be illegal, but as long as you can move your
- body, you have the *right* to do whatever you want to with it. It might
- be kindof hard if you're handcuffed in a police car, but...
-
- >example, I don't have the right to inject heroin into it.
-
- Sure you do.
-
- >
- >On the flip side, I would give a woman every right to control her own
- >body, but a fetus is not part of her body and the right does not extend
- >to controlling it.
-
- And you wonder why people think you're a mysognist?
-
- >
- >As Portia said in The Merchant of Venice, Shylock
- >had the right to his pound of flesh, but not to one drop of blood.
- >
- >
- >>I'll volunteer to be the "doer" to Peter's body. If you'd like some of my
- >>qualifications, see if you can find a post titled "You Asked For It!", where
- >>I describe some of the slight correlations between fisting and giving birth.
- >
- >If you are trying to gross me out, you'll have to try a lot harder than
- >this. In fact, I don't think it can be done on talk.abortion without
- >calling the wrath of network censors on your head and bringing on pressure
-
- Are you trying to threaten me, little man? You might want to study the
- net.history of t.a for the last year or so, and see just what passes as
- "allowable" here...
-
- >to turn talk.abortion into a moderated newsgroup, which is something none
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- This gets my vote for "Stupidest sentence fragment of the month".
-
- >of us wants. [There has been some talk of creating a moderated abortion
- >newsgroup, but that does not entail doing away with this one.]
- >
- >Of course, I can't stop you from e-mailing me...
-
- Sorry, honey. I don't do e-mail. Or Windows.
-
- Rumor has it you've done Jeff Stryker, though...
- --
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- =My thoughts, my posts, my ideas, my responsibility, my beer, my pizza. OK???=
- =I am not "pro-life"... - Doug Holtsinger in article =
- = <1992Aug18.171231.1162@ncsu.edu> =
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