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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: What REALLY pisses me off about Fundies
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- References: <23OCT199214260757@summa.tamu.edu> <nyikos.720222105@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <BwynBr.45p@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1cste7INNlqr@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <1992Nov2.190639.2686@brandonu.ca>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 20:10:44 GMT
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- In <1992Nov2.190639.2686@brandonu.ca> mcbeanb@brandonu.ca writes:
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- >Adrienne Regard writes:
- >>
- >> Now, ask yourself: Would you be in college today if your parents had two
- >> MORE younger children at home right now?
-
- >Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this argument much the same as
- >"If you were aborted you wouldn't be here to read this"? Or is that
- >the point that I'm missing?
-
- You've made a good point, Brian. The relevance of sentience, by the
- way, is that at some point there was a "you" who got aborted, and is
- therefore not able to read this.
-
- Of course, that was not *you*, Brian, but it was someone else whom I
- might be able to address as "you" today, if she hadn't been aborted.
-
- I have in mind one specific "she", but there were millions of others in
- the decade when she died, and an approximately equal number of "he"s.
-
- >> implant. I think it's far more tragic that existing people today suffer
- >> privation than it is that some fetuses don't get carried to term.
-
- >I think I agree with this.
-
- I totally disagree. I did not expect my "Another failure to communicate
- on an ultimate question" post to take root in Adrienne's mind, or even in
- Brian's, but I'll keep coming back to the theme I brought up there in the
- coming months and, I hope, years.
-
- Peter Nyikos
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-