Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Torek's SECOND ANNUAL CONCLUSIVE ARGUMENT :-> Message-ID: <427@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 06:43:53 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.427 Posted: Sat Jul 20 06:43:53 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jul-85 05:57:18 EDT References: <789@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1012@noscvax.UUCP> <915@umcp-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Distribution: na Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 Summary: In article <915@umcp-cs.UUCP> flink@maryland.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) writes: >>As long as there are different words for these creatures, they are >>distinct and subject to different treatment. > >I.e., as long as we have the separate words "teenager" and "adult" we >can legitimately protect adults' lives and not teenagers', or vice >versa? I don't buy it. That's not what the writer said. He said the could be "treated" differently. That merely implies a different set of rights. Right to life is a specific case. -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "I always try to avoid cliche's like the plague!" -Rev. Wang Zeep