srradia@watmath.UUCP (sanjay Radia) (03/30/84)
>[This is from an article I earlier wrote, which sanjay included:] >> >Suppose you had two children, one fourteen, one about a month old. Suppose >> >some big, dark, evil bureaucrat was coming to claim one, take one away, and >> >you had to make a choice. You have the baby under one arm, the fourteen-er >> >under the other, the decision-awaiting bureaucrat in front of you. The pro- >> >lifers would save the baby. The pro-choicers would save the fourteen-year- >> >old. >> > Kenn the Kenf >>Kenn, how did you reach to the above consclusion? I would probably shoot the >>bureaucrat. And how would you you classify me? Pro-what? >> sanjay >Sanjay, what I was trying to illustrate a point -- whom is more important of >the parents or the fetus, using only their age differences. The fourteen-year- >old is supposed to represent the mother and father, the baby is the fetus. >The bureaucrat is all the evils and unhappiness that an unwanted child COULD >bring (varying from case to case, of course!). You have to make the decision, >kiddo, that's why you're suscribed to this newsgroup in the first place! >Would you let the family get the abortion and rid of the baby, or keep it >and possibly sacrifice the happiness and careers of the mother and father? > >As for Pro-what, I'd think you'd be pro-misunderstood. But if you can >figure out if you're pro-choice or pro-life or pro-notpro, lemme know! > > Kenn the Kenf Kenn, if you read what you you wrote it will be quite obvious that it was a bad way to illustrate your point. Many news-readers (including me) conculded that you were saying that a 14 year was more important than a baby - if your have beem reading the news you would have seen replies to your article. And since you felt that I had misunderstood you, you should have ended your posting there. What is all this bull about me being pro-misunderstood and not being able to make up my mind about whether I am pro-life or pro-choice. Since it was irrelavent to my posting I didn't mention it (and still won't). It seems that a lot of people have been misunderstanding you. Here are some of your replies telling other people that they have misunderstood: >Maybe I better try explaining myself more! I don't mean physical pain - almost >everyone hurts when they die. I mean the emotional pain, mental anguish, that >... etc >So do I! I was just trying an abstract model and you took it literally. >Alas, again I try an intellectually abstract model, and again it gets taken >literally. I'm not trying to say that the fetus is not human. I agree very >strongly that it is. However I do not believe it has as much "pull" in >this decision as the mother. It has some, but the parents have so much more. >With all the abstract butterfly modeling, I was trying to show a balance >between the mother and fetus's potential deaths and sufferings. Most people >would choose a quick death than a long, stretched out torture (not over years, >.... etc sanjay