Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!sunny From: sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: rape worse than murder? Message-ID: <2322@sun.uucp> Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 20:26:09 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.2322 Posted: Wed Jun 19 20:26:09 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Jun-85 02:43:18 EDT References: <560@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <522@usl.UUCP> <530@utai.UUCP> <468@rtech.UUCP> <996@mnetor.UUCP> <2852@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 21 > All these left-brained explanations of how you can't recover from murder > miss the point. > > We're all going to die, and if you murder me you've taken a certain quantity > of my life from me. You haven't necessarily changed the total quality > of my life, integrated from birth to death (how's that for left-brained!). > > If you do something--even to someone else--that lowers the quality of my > life, then you may have hurt me even more. That depends on what my values > are. I may value quality of life over quantity. > -- > Richard Mateosian > {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!srm nsc!srm@decwrl.ARPA Hurting any one of us hurts all of us. nuff said Sunny -- {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)