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From: minas@foxvax1.UUCP (P.C. Minasian )
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: The value of life (and other sundry stuff)
Message-ID: <361@foxvax1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Apr-84 09:54:04 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 12 09:54:04 1984
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David Tanguay at watrose!datanguay suggests that:

>	 The value of a thing is equal to the amount of sorrow its
>	 removal from existence will cause.

Interesting idea.  Until you consider the real ramifications of what he's
saying.  This is really a peripheral topic I'm opening up here, but I'm
left with little choice.

David,

How does your definition relate to the thousands of homeless souls we have
wandering the streets of most major urban environments??  I submit that
their death or murder would probably cause little or no sorrow; this is
precisely why these people often end up on the street in the first place!
Are you saying that these lives have no value and should therefore not be
saved/rehabilitated?  Or, worse yet, that their murder should not be
considered morally unjustifiable?

  
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-phil minasian		...decvax!genrad!wjh12!foxvax1!minas