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From: kenn@sdccsu3.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Definitions
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Date: Sun, 29-Apr-84 16:48:00 EDT
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From: ..!gatech!owens (Gerald Owens)

> Ok, What ARE the circumstances and differences between a fetus, criminals,
> children and olderfolks that allows criminals to be executed, murderers
> of children and olderfolks to be executed, and a fetus to be killed
> by the private decision of another person?  We know that they are similar,
> i.e. alive, so how are they significantly different to merit such
> different treatment?  I just want to have them stated, in the open, so
> that if any laws are or are not going to be changed, then they'll be based
> on something solid

Solid what?  The greatest limitation to this newsgroup is that we all have
different definitions on everythig!  Something solid, huh?  Solid what?
Solid BS that you or five million other netters will strike down as being
only a biological definition and others as it being a religios def. and
others as ultiltarian or pragmatic or everything-else-under-the-sun-ic!
You won't get anything very solid to work with here.  The world is what the 
people in it think it is.  If you want the people of the world to conclude 
things with you, you have to argue with them to THEIR thinking.  Nobody
can just pick a def and say, "this is it."  Thus most defs. suggested to
you will be flamed by someone.  Why don't you try not to cop out on a
"no solid evidence" plea and argue in some abstract terms?  Abstraction
is nice because it can fit into everyone's way of thinking.  Now, answer
my previous article!

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