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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Subject: Re: Re: Whose life anyway?
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Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 10:18:01 EDT
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> Its not pointless for those who have been helped by others who might
> have been aborted.  If you had been aborted, the lives of others you
> have influenced (or will influence) would be much different.  Would
> you like to think that they would be better off?  Whould they think so?
> I'm glad my wife wasn't aborted.  For all I know, I may never have met
> another like her.
> 
> There's no way to tell the influence that one person would have on another.
> I don't think we are justified in considering the "what if so-and-so were
> aborted" question so lightly by assuming that that person's life would have
> be detrimental to others or make no difference whatsoever.
> 
> Is your life pointless now?  If not, why is the question of whether or
> not you had ever lived pointless?
> -- 
> 
> Paul Dubuc 	cbscc!pmd

Yes, but the question of "what if I had been aborted?" is not more
meaningful than asking "what if I had died in that last car accident I
was in?" or "what if I had different parents?" or "what if I was born
in a different country?", and so on....

Basically, the answer is "who knows what might have happened, probably a
bunch of good things, and a bunch of bad things, but it didn't happen,
so what is the point in wondering about it".  Dying is only one type of
thing that people do that change the course of history.
-- 
Sophie Quigley
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