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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
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Subject: Re: Clearing up my pro-abortion argument
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Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 10:38:46 EST
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> c) Rights are guarantees that force will not be used against a being.
> e) Only humans have rights.
> f) Humans have rights because they have the capacity to think.
> g) One right humans have is, the right to life.
> 
> Please point out any unstated assumptions you find.
> 
Sorry, you have obviously taken the time to think through
what you are saying, but I found a major unstated assumption.

You assume that beings can have "rights."

Where are these "rights" of which you speak?  May I see them?  What
does a "right" look like?  Who doles them out?   You have to assume
that "rights" "exist" before you say that "this being has rights"
and "this being does not," in the same way that you would say
"this being has a spine" and "this being does not."  

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