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From: amigo@iwlc6.UUCP (John Hobson)
Newsgroups: net.abortion,net.religion
Subject: Re: my mail box overfloweth
Message-ID: <124@iwlc6.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Apr-84 12:41:57 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  5 12:41:57 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Apr-84 02:57:40 EST
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Gus Fink-Nottle (sic) (aka ccieng5!jbf) bases his pro-abortion
argument on the words of that most distinguished English philosopher,
Oscar Wilde (a perfect spokesman for the "Me Generation"):  "There
is no good and no evil--there is only the interesting and the dull."

He goes on to state that "the deaths of those who are dull are of
no consequence."  He asserts that fetuses are ipso facto dull, and
ends with "Yes, fetuses are human.  Yes, killing them is `murder',
though not in the legal sense.  But who cares?"

This is the sort of intellectual claptrap that makes me want to
throw up.  I have several questions for Mr. Fink-Nottle:

1.  How do you get to the a priori opinion that fetuses are dull?

2.  Who is to decide whether or not a given person is dull?  I say
that Walter Mondale is dull, therefore I hereby dispatch you to
kill him.

3.  Granting, for the sake of argument, that fetuses are dull; how
can you tell if they might not become interesting when they grow? 
After all, Oscar Wilde himself was a fetus once.

Who cares?  Most of the people who contribute to net.abortion do.

				John Hobson
				AT&T Bell Labs--Naperville, IL
				ihnp4!iwlc6!amigo