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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: The christian perspective...?
- Message-ID: <d2wnh!=.ray@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 21:11:36 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services
- References: <1992Sep10.150225.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> <1992Sep10.221038.8158@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Sep11.222608.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- mcmillan@vf.jsc.nasa.gov writes ...
- > gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- >> mcmillan@vf.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
- >> } I backed it up all the way to two cells--two distinctly human
- >> }cells that in just 9 short months will be ...
- >>
- >> Why stop there? Why not back it up before then? Why not back it up
- >> to the lustful gleams?
- >>
- >Get serious.
-
- What makes you think he or I are being any less serious than are you?
- You make up some arbitrary point for the beginning of humanity then
- expect everyone else to accept without question that you decision is
- correct?
-
- Bzzzt. Wrong. Try again.
-
- >> }Then I decided that abortion is wrong.
- >>
- >> Good for you. You did not, however, explain why it should be illegal.
- >>
- >If it wasn't obvious from what I said, it should be illegal because it is
- >killing (by torture) an innocent human being who has no choice in the matter.
-
- Several more blatant and unsupported assertions from the Gospel of Stokes.
-
- It wasn't obvious.
- It isn't torture (in part, because torture implies pain)
- It isn't innocent.
- It isn't a human being.
- It cannot make a choice.
-
- Now then, I don't doubt you disagree with these statements. If you're
- going to say so, please keep in mind that you should try something more
- convincing than your own Edicts For Humanity.
-
- >Yes it should be made illegal. Yes I am pro-choice--for the baby. Let it
- >(via nature) decide if it is going to live or die. The one person in this
- >world it should not have to fear is its mother.
-
- Well then, since Nature is to be the Ultimate Arbiter of Human Endeavour,
- perhaps we should all eschew clothes, cars, houses, computers, and Bibles
- and go back to a hunter/gatherer existance? After all, all of the above
- are clearly contrary to the wishes of Nature or else they would have been
- supplied for us.
-
- --
- Ray Fischer
- ray@netcom.com
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