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From: matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt )
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Why is Human Life Valuable
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Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 08:42:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 08:42:08 1985
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CAROLYN J. CLARK writes:

>       Human beings are the most destructive life form on Earth
>      
>                      and
>      
>       There are more than 4.7 Billion* of them
>      
>   In the light of these two facts, could some pro-human-lifers please supply
> some reasons for their belief that each and every living organism that can
> be somehow defined as 'human' is 'valuable' and must be preserved.

What does Carolyn Clark mean by "destructive"?  If she means the destruction
wrought by real-estate developers and industrialists in clobbering wilderness
to make room for human habitation and commerce, then humans are merely doing
what every species does:  providing for themselves at the expense of whatever
other animal and plant species they can take advantage of.  In that case,
an argument against human multiplication is an argument against the 
multiplication of any life form.  Rocks don't destroy anything -- do we
want a world with nothing in it but rocks?

Or maybe she means the destruction wrought by war, wherein humans destroy
vast areas of other life in their attempt to destroy one another?  But
wars are caused by a small minority of people.  How many of the 1.5 million
American fetuses aborted last year would have caused a war?  Do we want
to smear all humans as "the most destructive life form on Earth" because
of the activities of the destructive few?  Does Carolyn Clark herself feel
that she personally is a "destructive life form"?

I detect a strain of nihilism in Carolyn Clark's anti-human argument, and
in Charles Forsythe's conception of population growth as mere wage-slaves
and cannon-fodder for the capitalist imperialist swine warmongers.  And 
I say, Be proud of what you are, not ashamed!!  Stand up tall and say,
"I am a human being!"

				-- Matt Rosenblatt


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