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Subject: Another small question.
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[ WARNING: not for the squeamish! - of course now everyone will read on]

Since we had such fun with the Hitler quote about nature being cruel,
I should send over my answer, I thought we might try again with the
following:

From MACAU, by Daniel Carney, (he also wrote WILD GEESE)
This is a great adventure story, by the way!
                                  
   "First a jar of boiling oil was wheeled forward on a trolly.  Beside it
    was placed a large razor-sharp cleaver.  With a flourish a waiter
    pulled away the white table cloth, revealing a hole in the center of
    the table through which was thrust a monkey, its arms strapped tightly
    to its sides.  The monkey's wide eyes were pierced through with fear,
    and as its head rose above the level of the table it opened its mouth
    wide and screamed, a sound like that of a terrified child.  Thomas Wu,
    with an expert flick of the cleaver, severed the crown from the monkey's
    head.  Immediately the boiling oil was poured over its brain and the
    diners surged forward with their long-handled spoons to dig out the
    still-quivering delicacy."

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My question this time is . . . "Why should it not be a CHILD instead of a
monkey???  (of course an unwanted child with birth defects who can't speak
and whom we don't recognize as 'human' therefore)
                                                            
Appeals to 'religious tradition' need not apply!  Because we all know the
great Uibzmo doesn't exist anyway beyond the fever swamp mentality of the
unliberated 'religious believers' and of course remember, the LAW is 
what people SAY it is in any given time or place, and who are YOU to 
push YOUR morals down anyone else's throat . . . if you find the above
question answerable beyond "not here, you don't" but "it shouldn't happen
anywhere", I'd like to know . . . WHY???

Note:
      I could have just as easily asked where do morals come from . . . yawn!
This way (MY way) maybe we can get the juices flowing and get motivated to
brace the question . . . since it may be the NEXT frontier to cross into the
Dark Ages we seem to be plunging into headlong.  

GOURMET RIGHTS!!!!

Keep chargin'

Ken Arndt