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- From: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity
- Subject: Re: Observations
- Message-ID: <25060@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 15:24:41 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.204749.4281@watson.ibm.com> <1992Sep10.033903.12606@advtech.uswest.com>
- Reply-To: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense)
- Followup-To: talk.abortion
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- Note follow-up.
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- In talk.abortion, stevens@eatdust (John Stevens) writes:
- >>Gordon Storga
-
- >>This argument has been used before. My reply is this: You contributed
- >>1/2 of one cells worth of DNA. At the eight week abortion point the fetus
- >>consists of millions of cells. For sake of argument let's say 3 million
- >>cells.
-
- >Fair enough.
-
- >>You get 1/3000000 worth of the decision.
-
- >And the woman only contributed 1/2 of one cells worth of DNA. So her share
- >in the decision is, Ummm . . . (click, click, click of mouse using X
- >windows Hp calculator program . . .) 1/3000000 of the decision.
-
- >Wow! Look at that! You've mathematically proven that the contributions
- >are equal!
-
- You failed elementary school math and high school biology one, didn't
- you?
-
- >So the the other 2999999/3000000 worth of the decision is the babies, since
- >he/she grew those cells, not mom or dad.
-
- Where did the material for those other 2999999 cells come from? WHy
- I do believe you'll find that *all* that material came from the mother,
- as well as *all* of the material for the original cell, except 26 (normally)
- chromosomes. So that actually makes your contribution <1/3000000 of
- the whole, and the mother's contribution >2999999/3000000.
-
- Now who should get to make the decision? Since a fraction >2999999/
- 3000000 ~= 1 and a fraction <1/3000000 ~= 0, a woman gets to make the
- entire decision. And that's just based on mathematics. Then we go to
- pain, suffering, discomfort, bodily alterations, etc. The man's share
- of these: 0, the woman's share: all. Shall we continue, or do you get
- the point?
-
- >>See how insignificant your opinion is?
-
- >Yup. Just EXACTLY as insignificant as the womans.
-
- Really, you should get your math straight.
-
- [...]
-
- >And the next time you try a mathematical argument, you might try remembering
- >that data and information are two different things.
-
- After looking at your representation of math, I wonder if the members
- of Congress went to your school. The way they treat the national debt
- is similar. BTW, data is information, and information is data, they
- are synonyms. You do need more information before you post, and I'll
- be happy to supply the data. :)
-
- Ron
-
- Potassium Benzoate included as a preserver.
-