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- Subject: Genocide?
- Message-ID: <19124.2af11fe0@levels.unisa.edu.au>
- From: 9051467f@levels.unisa.edu.au (The Eidolon)
- Date: 30 Oct 92 11:43:28 +0930
- References: <1992Oct1.184309.90248@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Oct7.010135.4505@funlwb.enet.dec.com> <73.2ad9b03e@whyalla.unisa.edu.au>
- Organization: That damn kid is still here!
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- Another from aus.religion, and next I shall stick a VERY interesting
- one (which started this thing) called 'Post Natal Abortion'.
-
- In article <73.2ad9b03e@whyalla.unisa.edu.au>, 9051467f@whyalla.unisa.edu.au (Wild Child) writes:
- > In article <1992Oct7.010135.4505@funlwb.enet.dec.com>, ollis@redbck.stl.dec.com (Stephen Ollis) writes:
- >
- >> What is the problem with you Christian dudes? It's fairly clear that
- >>>abortion is O.K. The child doesn't feel anything and is not aware of his
- >>>impending demise (and therefore doesn't suffer phsycologically). In fact the
- >>>same argument can be applied to justify "post-natal abortion", since a child
- >>>of
- >>>say less than 1 year of age can not understand that he is about to die
- >>>(provided the surgeon acts tactfully), and can be put to death in a painless
- >>>way.
- >
- >> So, where do you draw the line Kevin? Murder has been legalised for the unborn,
- > ..
- >> stop the age limit being raised? `Oh Billy, my 5 year old, is limiting the
- >> lifestyle I lead. Let's have him aborted...' It's just a small mental leap from
- >> this viewpoint to euthanasia... 'Oh I don't want to have look after my sick 60
- >> year old father.. let's have him put to sleep'...
- >>
- >> Where does it end? When will we learn? When will we change? When will
- >> we turn?
- >
- > Hey! Why not take this Reductio Ad Absurdum thing the whole hog! A foetus may
- > become a human, so killing it is homicide. A woman can give birth to children,
- > so lets charge someone who kills a woman with multiple counts of murder, since
- > she may bring other humans! Heck yeah! Those kids could have kids, and those
- > kids could have lotsa more kids... Hell, charge her killer with GENOCIDE!
- >
- > Waitwaitwait..a man could father many children...charge someone who kills
- > a man with genocide too! Whoa.. what about wasted sperm?? Any one of them
- > may become a human! Heck YES!! charge any man who has sex with genocide!!
- > There's more! Everytime a woman has a period, it flushes out an egg with
- > it - that egg may have become a human .. . .charge her with genocide!!
- >
- > John McVey, Whyalla campus, Uni S.Australia
- > Enic Eng Student & Tekkie G1
- > Those who believe in an afterlife will not be dissapointed.
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- John J McVey, Whyalla, Uni S. Australia 9051467f@levels.unisa.edu.au
- Electronic Engineering student & Terror Tekkie!
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