From: vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ()
Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:20:23 GMT

patrick@rio-grande.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:

>In article <C05C1C.GpI@news.cso.uiuc.edu> vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:

>   patrick@rio-grande.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:

>>In article <C04xGM.Cpz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:

>>   mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:

>>   >In article <1hssu5INN270@meaddata.meaddata.com> johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend) writes:

>>  >>Since you're so "pro-choice," how about letting Jeffery Dahmer eat you for
>>  >>dinner if he wants to.  Hey, it's his body.
>>  >>
>>   >If Jeff Dahmer wants to eat his own body, I would not care, nor would
>>   >I do anything to stop him. I wouldn't care to watch, but I would
>>   >certainly agree that he should be allowed to eat himself if he wishes.
>>   >You, on the other hand, seem to have a difficulttime comprehending the
>>   >difference between what he does to his *own* body, and what is done to
>>   >*another persons* body.

>>   Hacking a baby into pieces I think qualifies as attacking another person's
>>   body.

>   >No kidding.  Of course, you fail to consider that it's not a baby that's
>   >being talked about in this case, but I digress.

>   Baby, adult, no difference.  Murder is murder.

>Of course -- babies and adults have both been born, nitwit.  Fetuses and
>embryos haven't.  Why all the difficulty with such simple English?

I'm not going to start this argument again because pro-aborters are
thoroughly incapable of understanding it.  Basically, your definition
of life is dependent solely upon place of residence.  

>   >   >                  Mark Cochran          merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
>   >   >These are the views of my employer. They also represent the views of
>   >   >your employer, your government, the Church of your choice, and the
>   >   >Ghost of Elvis. So there.

>   >   Edward Simmonds- Sick of ignorance

>   >If you truly were, I'd think you'd start a little closer to home...

>   Cute... back it up.

>Look up a few lines to your last outburst, where you imply you can't tell the
>difference between an embryo and an adult.  You're backing it up for me.
>(*I* can figure out that much of a difference, and I'm just a ridge-runner
>from the coal camps of eastern Kentucky -- so what's YOUR excuse?)

There is a difference in technical definition, not in the value of the
life in question.  Stating that unborn babies have equal rights to life
as adults is hardly an outburst.  


>   >--PLH, *real* subtle userid, there -- "vengeanc"...
>   >--

>   *shrug* Long story... one of my favorite characters.  

>Gad.  First Airplane Boy (the late, very unlamented Steve Chaney, in case
>you're wondering), and now this...

I wasn't.

>--PLH, whatever it is in the water in Raleigh must have spread to
>Shampoo-Banana... 
>--
>Patrick L. Humphrey  (patrick@is.rice.edu)  Rice Networking & Computing Systems
>     +1 713 528-3626 at Rice. 776-1541 at home. 667-6554 at Palace Lanes. 
>    *"The opinions expressed by Patrick do not necessarily represent those
>             of Rice staff, management, or any living person."*

It amazes me how Patrick can be so smug about failing completely to establish
any logical refutation of my statements.


Edward Simmonds

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