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From: jbf@ccieng5.UUCP (Jens Bernhard Fiederer)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Ethics vs. the Natural Order
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Date: Mon, 23-Apr-84 12:41:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 23 12:41:00 1984
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>Even given the neo-Malthusian problems in his argument, I find it hard to
>accept the idea that most modern (middle-class, urban, working) women are
>aborting fetuses for reasons of overpopulation (overcrowding in their condos,
>perhaps?)

I hate to disillusion you, but most modern women are not urban middle-class
working women.  There is a world outside the condos.

>Also, I just don't understand how people argue problems of ethics
>from scientific Darwinian evidence!  Human lives may or may not be
>"precious" to Nature, given floods, population pressures, natural
>disasters, etc.  But that does not address the issues of how we are
>to treat each other, unless one wishes to abandon ethics entirely
>in deference to the Natural Order.

A system of ethics not conforming to the Natural Order would seem
artificial and self-defeating.  Try a system of ethics BASED on
the natural order.

Till Eulenspiegel
-- 
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