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!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Why is Human Life Valuable Message-ID: <881@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 06:27:13 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.881 Posted: Thu Sep 26 06:27:13 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 06:30:31 EDT References: <2271CJC@psuvm> <1683@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 41 Summary: Matthew Rosenblatt writes: >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"? [Assertion that >destroying the wilderness is man's way of "providing for themselves"] Your example is good, but here's the flip side: while every `thing' on Earth tries to do it's best to provide for itself, man does something that sets him apart. Man also works on ways to destroy himself, too. Sure you can make an argument about some species that eats its entire food supply and dies out, but they have an excuse: they didn't know any better. Man is likely to do things such as say,"I know putting this waste dump here will poison the water, but I don't care," or "I can graze my cattle on this field until its a hopeless desert, but that's the next guys problem," or "I can create a population explosion until everybody is starving and society is hopelessly crumbling because my religion tells me to." Read some anthropological studies on over-crowding. It has been conclusively linked to rates of: murder, theft, homosexuality*, suicide, ect. But, hey, we're all G-d's children. *Note:I personally don't consider homosexuality as a social ill, and I realize that it is not unnatural, but it tends to increase in crowded situations. Flames to net.motss. -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "Ordinary F___ing people -- I hate 'em. Ordinary people spend their lives avoiding tense situations; repo man spends his life getting into tense situations." Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com