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To: E who wrote (57425)10/6/1999 7:32:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
>There comes a time when a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind. There
comes a time when the dangerousness of, and precedent implied, by the phenomenon
should, politics aside, alarm anybody.<

An extreme example of the unreliability of this sort of moral buffer was illustrated at the ends of a hundred thousand Rwandan machetes. From what I heard - this wasn't the act of death squads - but regular normal people told by radio to "kill the other tribe". And they freakin went and DID IT. So I fear that for smaller things (like, say, the legal status of a smear of cells) any hope for a "natural" moral boundary is even more unlikely. Alas.



To: E who wrote (57425)10/6/1999 9:53:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Respond to of 108807
 
With respect to the quotation, which you claim to be appalled by, but are secretly gleeful about, I would bet, please consider the source.

As for me, I don't need a politician to make me feel safe, confident, proud, or optimistic, but I do feel safer, more confident, and more optimistic living in the United States than in many other places I have read about, and that's even with Clinton as president.


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