owens@gatech.UUCP (Gerald R. Owens) (04/28/84)
<food> A Quote from Kenn's response to my response to a third person's article. ****************Start of Quote**************** > However, we behave in ways that seem to > belie that. Why bother with murder? Why bother about those kids in > the first place?? i.e. why worry about suffering if their lives are > no more valuable than a snail darters? You tell me. (In a language I can understand, too!) I wouldn't give a to-be- aborted fetus the time of day, let alone meddle with other people's lives and choices. At the same time, if someone wanted to kill another man or woman, I'd definetly intervein. I don't hold the life of a fetus as high as you people, but that doesn't have much to do with how I hold the lives of children and olderfolks. ****************End of Quote***************** And from another article, again his reply to my reply to a third party's article. ****************Start of Quote*************** > If there is no good, non-religious reason for concluding > that the fetus is a person, then it becomes a matter of belief, and I'll > have to stand with Kenn in asserting that under our system, the majority > has a right to decide how IT believes. Why doesn't the majority have a right to decide for a person? We do that all the time with the passing of bills of rights and declarations of independence and such. Judges sentence criminals to death according to guidelines that the majority have set, ie our laws. Criminals are people; yet we kill some of them. Because a majority has decided that under such and such circumstances, it is 'OK' to terminate the life of that person. I see the fetus as no different in being a person (in respect to laws). Just because it is unborn doesn't mean it can't come under one of our 'majority-made' laws. Comments, anyone? >>> Please send very personal flames via mail, otherwise post. <<< ***************End of Quote************* Ok, What ARE the circumstances and differences between a fetus, criminals, children and olderfolks that allows criminals to be executed, murderers of children and olderfolks to be executed, and a fetus to be killed by the private decision of another person? We know that they are similar, i.e. alive, so how are they significantly different to merit such different treatment? I just want to have them stated, in the open, so that if any laws are or are not going to be changed, then they'll be based on something solid Gerald Owens Owens@Gatech