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

To: Solon who wrote (81675)	12/30/2009 7:10:10 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"That has no connection to your earlier statement - "Whenever an egg is fertilized one can be reasonably assured of a strong likelihood that the mother WILL develop a VERY specific "intent to do harm"."" It has every connection to the statement made. I had quoted statistics regarding the likelihood of a mother aborting her egg and those statistics supported the above statement. Not really. Abortion is common, but not common enough to be reasonably assured of a strong likelihood that any particular newly pregnant woman will develop a very specific intent to harm the fetus. But more importantly the statistics are irrelevant to anything in this discussion outside that specific sentance. If their is a strong likelihood the woman will develop such an intent, that doesn't suggest any particular legal or police response to the woman even from the strongest most extreme pro-life perspective. We don't prosecute thought crime (intents), and we definitely, don't/shouldn't/and pretty much can't, prosecute possible future intents that haven't happened yet. I said (as you just quoted): "If a woman plotted with her doctor to kill her 3 year old daughter and set an appointment date at the clinic for the murder she would certainly be guilty of conspiracy to commit murder." Again - --- You posted "Whenever an egg is fertilized one can be reasonably assured of a strong likelihood that the mother WILL develop a VERY specific "intent to do harm"." Message 25881437 Note both "strong likelihood" meaning not certain, and "will develop", meaning hasn't done so yet. Also "intent to do harm", if its purely a mental intent, is not prosecutable, you have to actually do something, plot with others to cause harm, or take actual steps to cause harm yourself. Your making a bait and switch here. I responded to your statement about some possibility of some time in the future, developing an intent. Now your talking concrete specific plans and actions, a totally different situation. --- If you want to change the topic then do so in some explicit way, don't pretend the new topic is a response to the old one.