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From: jbf@ccieng5.UUCP (Jens Bernhard Fiederer)
Newsgroups: net.abortion,net.religion
Subject: Re: my mail box overfloweth
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Date: Fri, 6-Apr-84 19:33:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  6 19:33:00 1984
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>1.  How do you get to the a priori opinion that fetuses are dull?
	This is one opinion I don't have to defend.  I simply have
	never met a fetus that dazzled me with wit.  Neither have
	I met a fetus that inspired compassion.

>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.
	Everybody makes that decision.  Notice that I never said all
	dull people should be killed.  I said their deaths would be
	of no consequence.  If Mondale is dull, it seems more convenient
	to ignore him than to kill him, especially with all those
	Secret Service men around.

	On the other hand, if he interests you enough to seem worth
	killing(despite all the risks), you can do your own "dirty
	work".  Why mix me up in it.

>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.

	They may very well become interesting later.  Oscar Wilde,
	after all, did.  If the only interested person (e.g., the mother),
	is interested in killing the fetus, we uninterested people will
	choose not to stand in her way.  If, because of her interest in
	the fetus, or her interest in the potential of the fetus (it
	might grow to be another Oscar Wilde!), she is interested enough
	to keep it, I would not argue with that decision, either.

	Please note that I am not flawing you for any interest you might
	have in feti.  That is a matter between you and your conscience.
	As for me, I am interested in discussions.  That explains my
	submissions to this newsgroup.
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