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

To: Neocon who wrote (7282)	3/4/2001 5:05:07 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

<<<Anyway, I am happy to acknowledge that it is a potential person, that the requisite characteristics of personality do not exist. >>> It sounds as though it were only the "requisite characteristics of personality" that don't exist in a united gamete. But another thing that doesn't exist is... ...a body. It has no body. It has no brain. It has, as you say, no "personality." Potential existence means merely that the thing may be at some time; actual existence, that it now is. --Sir W. Hamilton. As I said, I believe that only someone who believed a potential existence was an actual existence would think "without qualms," to borrow your phrase, of using the state to force an existing, actual woman to gestate a potential person until it became an actual person.