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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Why is Human Life Valuable
Message-ID: <881@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 06:27:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 26 06:27:13 1985
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Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
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Matthew Rosenblatt writes:
>CAROLYN J. CLARK writes:
>>       Human beings are the most destructive life form on Earth
>>                      and
>>       There are more than 4.7 Billion* of them
>>      
>>   In the light of these two facts, could some pro-human-lifers please supply
>> some reasons for their belief that each and every living organism that can
>> be somehow defined as 'human' is 'valuable' and must be preserved.
>
>What does Carolyn Clark mean by "destructive"? [Assertion that
>destroying the wilderness is man's way of "providing for themselves"]

Your example is good, but here's the flip side: while every `thing' on
Earth tries to do it's best to provide for itself, man does something
that sets him apart. Man also works on ways to destroy himself, too.
Sure you can make an argument about some species that eats its entire
food supply and dies out, but they have an excuse: they didn't know any
better. Man is likely to do things such as say,"I know putting this
waste dump here will poison the water, but I don't care," or "I can
graze my cattle on this field until its a hopeless desert, but that's
the next guys problem," or "I can create a population explosion until
everybody is starving and society is hopelessly crumbling because my
religion tells me to."

Read some anthropological studies on over-crowding. It has been
conclusively linked to rates of: murder, theft, homosexuality*, suicide,
ect. But, hey, we're all G-d's children.

*Note:I personally don't consider homosexuality as a social ill, and I
realize that it is not unnatural, but it tends to increase in crowded
situations.  Flames to net.motss.

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX

"Ordinary F___ing people -- I hate 'em. Ordinary people spend their
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