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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (4400)	2/2/2001 12:57:00 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

>> Your definition of the "essential" is that a blueprint is "essentially" a house, a loom and a cotton boll is "essentially" a bolt of cloth, a sunnyside up egg is "essentially" a chicken dinner. << There is a subtle difference: dynamic process. A fertilized egg is spontaneously developing and participating in the process of life. It is well on its way to "fulfilling" a certain purpose, a definite end: to become a unique, specific individual. And "each of these billions of occurrences" terminates that dynamic process and utterly and with complete finality halts the development of a specific, concrete individual. So yes, bland would call that the death of a child. He has no vested interest in looking at it any other way. One of bland's employees notified him Tuesday that she had just had a miscarriage. Bland's immediate, instinctive reaction was sorrow...for the loss of life.