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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: Greg or e who wrote (20224)	5/31/2005 12:50:41 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) of 28931

It's an arbitrary criteria at best ... Pretty much all milestones in life are arbitrary. What makes a 21 year old responsible enough to buy liquor when a 20year+364 days is not? The reason that arbitrary events are used for legal tests is that they can be used. People can objectively see that the event has occurred and therefore the legal actions have some predictability. That is why birth, defined as the cutting of the umbilical cord, is a perfect legal milestone to define when a fetus becomes a person. TP

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