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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
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 14:55:01 1985
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> 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
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