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

To: Lane3 who wrote (78935)	11/11/2003 2:56:40 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

You are expecting the baby to pay by having a rotten life. You have absolutely no way of knowing that. You are equating, with no justification all, a life that at three weeks is unwanted by its parents with a rotten life. There are many people alive today who might well have been aborted fifty or sixty years ago if that option had been freely available who are living wonderful lives. Who knows, you might be one of them yourself. Is your life rotten? Do you wish your parents had aborted you? What about X, or Average Joe, or Solon? (Okay, I concede Solon, but one out of four doesn't make a case.) Karen, what on earth has happened to your ability to think clearly? We don't disagree on the cost issue. What we disagree on is whether the fetus is a life, or a fingernail clipping. If you agreed with me on that, you would agree with my position. If I agreed with you on that, I would agree with your position. Actually, to be more accurate, I don't take a position. I'm an agnostic. I just don't know when a person really becomes a person. So until I do know, I take the more conservative position of assuming it is, since I believe that the consequences of that position (people either choosing more responsible sexual activity or accepting unwanted children) is less awful than the alternative (mass murder that kills more innocent people than the Holocaust did, and for much the same reason -- that the lives involved are unwanted and unvalued by those with control over those lives.)