Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Rights and Brains Message-ID: <1099@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 14:55:01 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxt.1099 Posted: Fri Aug 23 14:55:01 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 05:41:13 EDT References: <21@dscvax2.UUCP> <372@aero.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 18 > In article <21@dscvax2.UUCP> mn@dscvax2.UUCP (Matt Noah) writes: > >If people were given rights based on the amount of brains or the quality of > >their brains, we would quickly lose the freedom we now enjoy. > >Matt Noah You realize, of course, that the current legal system *does* grant rights according to the quality of people's brains. If your brain is of insufficiently low quality that you (as a non-infant) cannot, for example, tie your shoes, you'll probably end up in an institution, lacking many rights. If you brain degenerates to such a point that it can no longer generate *any* signals, you lose *all* your rights. Since the condition you describe exists, and we haven't lost our freedoms thereby, I must conclude that your argument is baseless. -- Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j "I'll show him that a Cadillac is not a car to scorn." "Beep Beep! Beep Beep!"