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To: The Philosopher who wrote (11597)	4/20/2001 2:28:36 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 82486

You can't measure the bond between a parent and child the way you can measure bonds of valence or grativy. Does that mean they don't exist? The only thing you have to "prove" the existence of bonds between parents and children are a) anecdotal evidence, and b) the evidence of the sacrifices parents do for "love" of their chilndren. These same things "prove" the existence of God. But you can prove the existence of the parent and the child and postulate an emotional bond between them based on their observable behavior. YOU CAN'T PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. And that's where your argument fails. There have been many, many martyrs who gave their lives, sometimes under terrible torture, for their belief in God. And there have been many martyrs who died for Communism, Nazism,and Islam. Does this mean those causes are right? The fact that people will die for a cause is not evidence of the correctness of that cause; it is evidence of their strong belief in it.

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