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

To: one_less who wrote (78678)	11/5/2003 7:46:20 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You have me wrong. My concern is twofold. One is libertarian: keep the government out of my personal business. The other is respect for humanity: don't keep me alive against my will.

To: one_less who wrote (78678)	11/5/2003 8:18:40 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 82486

Of course with advances in science we will be able to identify people who "might" develop certain motorneuron diseases to terminate their existence pre-birth. Stephen William Hawking Born in January of 1942 in Oxford, England, Stephen Hawking grew up near London and was educated at Oxford, from which he received his B.A. in 1962, and Cambridge, where he received his doctorate in theoretical physics. Stephen Hawking is a brilliant and highly productive researcher, and, since 1979, he has held the Lucasian professorship in mathematics at Cambridge, the very chair once held by Isaac Newton. Although still relatively young, Hawking is already being compared to such great intellects as Newton and Albert Einstein. Yet it should be noted that since the early 1960s he has been the victim of a progressive and incurable motorneuron disease that now confines him to a wheelchair. This affliction prevents Hawking from reading, writing, or calculating in a direct and simple way. The bulk of his work, involving studying, publishing, lecturing, and worldwide travel, is carried on with the help of colleagues, friends, and his wife. Of his illness, Hawking has said that it has enhanced his career by giving him the freedom to think about physics and the Universe. Stephen Hawking's contributions to cosmology have been in the areas of general relativity, gravity, and quantum theory, with particular application of these areas to black holes. His research centers on the attempt by physicists to unite quantum theory and gravity through general relativity into a more general theory, a theory that would span the spectrum of size from the tiniest subatomic particles to the Universe itself. Hawking has received recognition of his work numerous times, including the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Heinemann Prize of the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society, the Maxwell Medal and Prize, and the Einstein Medal. Albert Einstein once noted that "What is essential in the existence of a man of my type is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers," a very fitting comment also about Stephen Hawking.

To: one_less who wrote (78678)	11/5/2003 8:33:02 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 82486

Of course the greatest criteria for child rearing is the commitment of two parents. No more riff raff like this chap... "The illegitimate son of a 25-year-old notary, Ser Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, just outside Florence. His father took custody of the little fellow shortly after his birth, while his mother married someone else and moved to a neighboring town. They kept on having kids, although not with each other, and they eventually supplied him with a total of 17 half sisters and brothers.." mos.org