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From: john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: a task for those opposed to abortion
Message-ID: <412@cisden.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 10:18:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 17 10:18:44 1986
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In article <30@valid.UUCP> pete@valid.UUCP (Pete Zakel) writes:
>Certainly, if you murder adult humans, you will be seen as a murderer by
>other adult humans, and subject to being "removed" yourself.  (Definition
>of "removed": Killed, jailed, or otherwise having your freedom to kill
>other human beings taken away).

All this argument shows is that, in general, it's imprudent and unwise
to murder adults.  But if you were *certain* that nobody would ever find
out about some proposed murder, or that some legal loophole would get you
off scot free, your argument wouldn't apply.  And yet the murder would
still be wrong.

It's not the possibility of punishment that makes an action wrong.
-- 
				Peace and Good!,
				      Fr. John Woolley
"Compared to what I have seen, all that I have written is straw." -- St. Thomas