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From: jbf@ccieng5.UUCP (Jens Bernhard Fiederer)
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Subject: Re: my mail box overfloweth
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Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 13:18:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  4 13:18:59 1984
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Such and such is GOOD, such and such is BAD....yuch.  As Oscar Wilde wrote,
and I paraphrase, "There is no good and no evil -- there is only the
interesting and the dull."

Therefore, my first postulate:
1)	My life is interesting.
	otherwise I probably wouldn't put up with it.  others might, anyway.

from which does not follow the second postulate (otherwise I would have made
it a theorem)

2)	Human life may be either interesting or dull.
	induction from experience.  Actually, the law of the excluded middle
	could be used here with equal effect.

Obviously, the deaths of those who are dull are of no consequence (and therefore
hardly worth bringing about, or trying very hard to prevent).  The deaths of
those who are interesting are more consequential: either devoutly to be hoped
for, or a terrifying possibility.

Personally, I think fetuses and infants are rather dull (at least as long as
they are not mine -- I might even feign some interest for the sake of some
proud new mother).  If those in closer association find them interesting in
the negative sense, I will hardly exert myself to save the brats.

Yes, fetuses are human.  Yes, killing them is "murder", though not in the legal
sense.  But who cares?

Gus Fink-Nottle
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