owens@gitpyr.UUCP (Gerald Owens) (01/06/85)
Hope everyone had a happy holiday.
While on vacation, I was able to catch up on some reading that
I had wanted to do, and decided to read the "Zarathustra/Little Fuzzy"
series by H. Beam Piper ("Little Fuzzy", "Fuzzy Sapiens", "Fuzzies and
Other People"). A delightful set of books, and worth reading. So much
for the posting to net.books.
The first book, "Little Fuzzy", is of particular interest to those
debating in net.abortion since, as part of the development of the story
line, the question of consciousness, "sapience", and the definition of
murder, as well as the problems of determining such, are addressed by
the characters. Since it was written in the 60s, and does not address
the "humanity of the fetus" question directly, it might help shed some
light on our debate from the point of view of someone who does not have an
axe to grind for either side.
Those wishing to follow up on this article, please modify the
Newsgroups line before submitting. There seems to be a great adversion
to having the abortion debate spill over into other groups: more so than
if, say, net.motss spilled over into net.singles.
--
Gerald Owens
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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