tan@iwu1d.UUCP (William Tanenbaum) (05/12/84)
------------------------------------ > = Marchionni >And what do we have to show for all of years of eduaction which taught us to >think for "ourselves"???? >We ignore a stage of our development (fetus). >We dispose of inconveniences. >We can't or won't admit to the humanity of the unborn. >WE CAN'T EVEN DECIDE ON WHAT MAKES A HUMAN BEING HUMAN!!!!!!! >Must we re-discover everything at every generation??? >Do some of us reactionaries a favor..study the past at least a little. >Many of these problems have been solved...some of our teachers forgot to tell >us about the answers, or they just didn't like them. -------------------------------------------------------- I'm sure glad that many of these problems have been solved. Now you can just tell us the answers and we will all listen and we will all BELIEVE. We won't have to decide for ourselves any more. It sure would have saved Galileo and Copernicus a lot of trouble if they had taken your advice and accepted the teachings of the past. Those problems had been "solved" too. Some of us unbelievers may be so because we have ignored the lessons of the past. Others of us have just drawn different conclusions from the past than you have.