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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (4616)2/3/2001 8:50:31 PM
From: E  Read Replies (3) of 82486
 
I know you've never used the word soul.

It is the word usually used for the entity that makes a fertilized egg, in the minds of those like you, sacred.

Maybe you don't use the word sacred? You choose the vocab.

Let's say that the fertilized egg has an X in it. That X makes it advisable to force a woman to gestate it until it becomes a child.

Or... that X actually MAKES the microscopic entity a "child" in some way having to do with the defining and sufficient quality of human beings being that X.

This is a misunderstanding:

You write:

<< I would like to reduce people's suffering but the fact that someone possibly might suffer in the future if you let
them live does not justify killing them.>>

I was referring to the suffering of the women forced against their will to gestate and bear and, usually, care for -- or watch starve -- children, by those not walking in those women's shoes.

EDIT: I haven't gone back to see... but wait -- if you mean famine, and disease, from overpopulation -- if you mean that you don't think the fact that they will die in agony after living in agony, is sufficient reason to provide birth control and abortion if a woman begs for it...

I can't even talk about this right now I'm so horrified at the idea that that's what you meant.

Is it?
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