From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
Subject: Re: The theatre of the absurd
Keywords: You expect me to mark my deletions?  Dream on... 
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date:  9 Nov 92 22:50:38 GMT

In <1992Nov3.005245.12388@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran) writes:

>In article <1992Oct30.195615.18284@acd4.acd.com> wdo@TEFS1.acd.com (Bill Overpeck) writes:
>>In <1992Oct29.004833.12681@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu 
>>   (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran) writes: >
>>In article <1992Oct27.205204.682@acd4.acd.com> wdo@TEFS1.acd.com 
>>   (Bill Overpeck) writes: >>
>>In <1992Oct23.233107.24256@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu 
>>   (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran) writes: >>>
>>
>>>
>>>>>Right after we aquit Dr. Kevorkian for his part in the deaths of
>>>>>his "patients".
>>>
>>>>If I was on the jury at his trial, I would acquit him.  
>>>
>>>No surprise.
>>>
>>>>Because I feel
>>>>that the "individual right" to decide when your life is over is a _good
>>>>thing_.  You apparantly feel it's a _bad thing_.  Why?
>>>
>>>Many times the individual in question is depressed.  Depressed people
>>>have impaired decision-making abilities.  In the absence of depression,
>>>
>>>How nice of you to declare that I have "impaired decision-making 
>>>abilities", Bill.  Is this just your opinion, or is this a clinical 
>>>judgement?

Let me add my opinion to Bill's.  I *hope* your decision-making abilities
were impaired when you volunteered to be "doer" to my body.  I hate to
think you made it with full realization of how despicable the hint
of fisting me was.

I don't like to keep bringing this up, Keith, but you have done _squat_ in the
way of even acknowledging responsibility for what you did, let alone
apologize for doing it.

>>Neither, Keith.  It's a medical fact which pertains to people who
>>suffer from clinical depression.  If you are clinically depressed, 
>>then it applies to you.  Perhaps I should have been more specific.

>Let me put it into small words for you, Bill.  I suffer from depression.
>I don't have impaired decision-making abilities.

Does this mean you have no regrets about the decision to which I refer
above?

BTW I am sorry to hear you suffer from depression.  If you apologize 
for your offer, I promise never to bring it up again.  

>>
>>>Hey, I know.  Let's now pass a law that since I have "impaired 
>>>decision-making abilities", I can't decide what to do with my 
>>>body, or my life, or buy a car, or a house, or...  ^^ ^^^^^^^
   ^^^^
Especially your fist.

[lots deleted]

>Actually, you're becoming clearer and clearer.  I used to think of you
>as basically "one of those harmless types".  One of the pro-lifers that
>you could have a rational conversation with.

So did I, of you, before you made your offer. [Of course, with
"pro-choicer" in place of "pro-lifer."]

>  One of the pro-lifers who
>felt that women were capable of making decisions about things.  One of
>the people who felt that _people_ were more important then the HolyFetus.

Sentient fetuses _are_ people in my view.

"A person's a person, no matter how small."--Dr. Seuss

Peter Nyikos