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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: abortion and humanism
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Date: Tue, 15-May-84 23:07:32 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 15 23:07:32 1984
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>[His] philosophy seems one of SECULAR-HUMANISM which I railed against earlier.
>     This seems to be the predominant philosophy of most netters.
>
>How does one get this????   A virus perhaps????
No, one generally acquires it from an overdose of thinking.  No, sorry,
just kidding, really.

>Since the emphasis of humanism is on SELF the above attitude is expected.
>But how much of this intellectual arrogance????
Move it to net.flame.

>WE CAN'T EVEN DECIDE ON WHAT MAKES A HUMAN BEING HUMAN!!!!!!!
Seems fair to me...it's a pretty fundamental question, but that doesn't
make it easy.

>Do some of us reactionaries a favor..study the past at least a little.
>Many of these problems have been solved...some of our teachers forgot to tell
>us about the answers, or they just didn't like them.
...or the answers were too simplistic, or poorly considered, or just plain
wrong...
-- 
...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine.		Dick Dunn
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