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To: Father Terrence who wrote (42214)	6/27/1999 9:36:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

" Because no one has a "right" to a phone, to heat, to light, to food, to medical attention, etc." Sorry, Terry. I think you will find that anyone in government custody has a legally enforceable right to all of those things.

To: Father Terrence who wrote (42214)	6/27/1999 11:05:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<Just because something exists (advanced medical technology/knowledge) does not give one a right to it, no matter how great the need.> Well, your world view is technically correct, if we are all savages. There has been a great discussion here of what it means to live in a "civilized" culture", where things like basic medical care would be considered a human right, however. Somehow I don't think you are much of a human rights kind of guy, and prefer to live as a savage, so that you can justify a society which is not actually social or civilized at all, allowing you not to share any of your goodies even with children who are innocent victims of lesser fates. So definitely, you are a savage.