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- From: sa114984@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Steven Arnold)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Badges of Honor
- Message-ID: <Sep15.232012.35009@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 23:20:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep14.161750.22316@hemlock.cray.com>, mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson) writes:
- |> In article <Sep14.173415.54646@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> sa114984@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Steven Arnold) writes:
- |> >In article <1992Sep12.155140.28327@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- |> >|> In article <Sep12.074253.38224@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- |> >|> sa114984@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Steven Arnold) writes:
- |> >|>
- |> >|> } Yeah, and what if the hang glider did something to cause the guy to be
- |> >|> }hooked up in it? If the hang glider swooped down and grabbed the guy, for
- |> >|> }instance (still assuming the hang glider is a person), then it seems to me that
- |> >|> }the hang glider wouldn't have a right to just let him go in mid-air, would it?
- |> >|>
- |> >|> What a concept! I think I see why people might shoot hang gliders on
- |> >|> sight. I'm not sure if a hang glider would have the right to let someone
- |> >|> go in mid-air, but if they had that capability, who knows, it might even
- |> >|> be a right. I sure doubt that I would support legislation making that
- |> >|> illegal, however...
- |> >
- |> > Do you mean to suggest, Galen, that if hang gliders were persons you
- |> >wouldn't want to make it illegal for them to swoop down and pick up people, and
- |> >then drop them from mid-air?
- |> >
- |> Even though Galen speaks for everyone now, I don't think
- |> he'll mind terribly if I speak for him here.
- |>
- |> No. He wouldn't want to make it illegal.
-
- Muriel, you dumb slut. :-) (I hope you watched SNL in the '70s, or I'm in
- trouble...)
- Well, if people can legally swoop down and pick up other people, carry
- them a mile above ground and then drop them, all this without their prior consent,
- then your vaunted right to bodily autonomy isn't worth the power it takes to heat
- the hot air you use to talk about it.
- And your right to commit abortions goes poof along with the right to
- bodily autonomy.
-
- |> muriel
- |> standard disclaimer
- |> wondering how one punishes a hang glider...
-
- You'd destroy it.
-
- |> and who will be the first to succomb to the enticements
- |> of a really fine straight line.
-
- I don't know what that means, but if you're offering something....
-
- Steve
-