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To: epicure who wrote (699)	2/26/2001 7:33:43 PM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 948

>It is difficult to say why stabbing someone is wrong, >when you can stab them to obtain blood. Oh, I see... You think that wantonly attacking someone, and stabbing them JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT, and injuring them to the point where they need blood to survive is somehow equivalent to the situation where the guilty party is required to donate a non-lethal as-small-as-possible amount of blood under controlled circumstances in order to save the life of his VICTIM??? Do I have that right???

To: epicure who wrote (699)	2/26/2001 9:19:23 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 948

Excellent....

To: epicure who wrote (699)	3/5/2001 6:58:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 948

It is more a question of moral high ground. It is difficult to say why stabbing someone is wrong, when you can stab them to obtain blood. You can draw all the fancy distinctions you want- but a child's right to be free, and remain UNMOLESTED, comes from the right of all of us to be unmolested. It is not a good idea to carve out exceptions to that. Do you believe in punishment for crimes? Do you believe in restitution for damage? Could not taking some blood from the perpetrator of attempted murder (attempted because the 7 year old girl hasn't died yet) to save the victim be considered either a just punishment or restitution for the attack, literally making the victim whole again? Tim