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Re: Death penalty vs Abortion
Posted By: julian, on host 194.213.87.193
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 08:48:39
In Reply To: Re: Death penalty vs Abortion posted by Arthur on Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at 18:41:32:

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> > How's this for a resolution of the dilemma: Abortion is killing (taking of life), but not murder, because the unborn (for want of better time limit) has no conscience. Hmmm... No, it won't work, because we need to determine when the conscience is born, and we all know that we don't know this.
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> Um... Are you sure you didn't mean "consciousness"? Because I can think of some people well into physical maturity who exhibit poor signs of a conscience...
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> Then again, that's a pro-DP argument, isn't it? :) Better not go *there* again...
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> Ar"hey, look, another short post; this could be a record"thur

Oh... sorry.. of course, you're right. And you're right. But then again, I have argued for the Death Penalty :-)

jul"almost typed pre-DP. I'm that, too. But I'm not very good at english"ian