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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics,net.legal
Subject: Re: Re. Mike Huybensz's comments on Vet kills baby
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Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 13:47:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 25 13:47:59 1985
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Summary: 

In article <699@decwrl.UUCP> arndt@lymph.DEC writes:
> Of course Mike, or those who come after him - after it is legal to kill a
> non-adoped baby, "humanely" certainly, would never move another step to
> defining certain races or groups as worthy of serious consideration for
> "humane" treatment, right??  Of course not!! Such a thing could never happen.
> We all know that there is no 'final solution' to the problem of 'not good
> enough' or 'not quite' humans.

Ken is not the first to accuse me of Naziism (there's been one other by
mail.  He's much more polite, though just as wrong.)

Ken's argument is just as large a non-sequiteur as someone saying the
bible endorses Naziism, because at points God commands the killing of
other tribes.  There is an illogical jump that is plausible, but still
incorrect.

It is impossible to keep people from discriminating.  I personally am
opposed to racial and ethnic discrimination.  However, it does happen,
even recently in the US, as in the internment of Japanese-Americans
during WWII.

Yes, radical changes in what we legally define as human are to be feared
by all.  That's one reason why the Nazis were so loathed.  My proposal
for humanity by declaration prior to or shortly after birth is a tiny
change, that merely codifies what is essentially already practiced.
There already are a fair number of legal ways to destroy defective
newborns by withholding treatment.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh