Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mgwess.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!mgnetp!mgwess!plw From: plw@mgwess.UUCP (Pete Wilson) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Re: Whose (not who's!) Life Anyway? Message-ID: <14931@mgwess.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 18:10:43 EDT Article-I.D.: mgwess.14931 Posted: Fri Jul 19 18:10:43 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 12:30:03 EDT References: <5589@cbscc.UUCP> <4019@alice.UUCP> Reply-To: plw@mgwess.UUCP (Wilson,Pete,PL) Organization: AT&T Information Systems - Montgomery Illinois Lines: 29 Summary: In article <4019@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes: >Why do they make a difference? Because according rights to people on >the basis that they contain certain genetic material is racism, >pure and simple. On the other hand, it is genetic material which differentiates humans from the other life forms on this planet. The genetic material, of course, being that which gives us our physical form. I don't think it has been proven that the same stuff gives us our "mental form". >Rights stem from values, which require a rational faculty. The concept ^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ >of rights is meaningless to an entity that cannot form concepts. And >if an entity CAN form concepts, genetic material is irrelevant. Terrific! What say we save a bundle of bucks and "euthanize" all the folks in mental institutions? These people obviously aren't rational or they wouldn't be there. The reason we don't is that they have passed some arbitrary (possibly imaginary) point where they became "human beings". Pete Wilson AT&T IS CGBS Montgomery Works ..!ihnp4!mgnetp!mgwess!plw