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Subject: 
How to start a fire.
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Date: 
Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:05:23 GMT
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Almost if not completely verbatim...
I ran into an old friend the yesterday and really 'ruffled his feathers.' We got
on the subject of the Iraq war and he made the comment:
   "Over 1000 Iraqi civilians were killed and we didn't even find anything."
I replied:
   "So? Didn't you know life has no value?"
   "What are you talking about?!"
   "Well let's keep things in perspective shall we. More people than that are
murdered every day in the U.S."
   "What?!"
   "Sure we just use the euphemism 'Abortion' so people don't get all upset
about it"
   "That is not the same thing."
   "Why not? Innocent life is innocent life after all."
He stared dumbfounded for a moment then shook his head and said good bye.

-Mike Petrucelli



Message has 5 Replies:
  Re: How to start a fire.
 
In other news... My SO can't have children -- she'd choke them to death! -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: How to start a fire.
 
(...) Go Mike go! And on that, I completely agree. Dave K (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: How to start a fire.
 
(...) I'm not sure that quite qualifies perspective-wise, even accepting the fact that abortion==murder. We're talking (assumedly) military-inflicted deaths in Iraq versus civilian-inflicted deaths through abortion. And even beyond that, the Iraqi (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: How to start a fire.
 
(...) He's not much of a debater then, is he? If you're really interested in tackling this subject, I'm game. The first point of contention is that a blastocyst is not a person, and the elimination of a blastocyst is not the elimination of a person, (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: How to start a fire.
 
(...) Going on the assumption that abortion = murder, your argument is that an unconnected wrong justifies another. This requires that you prove any abortion = murder without condition (not to mention you are still saddled with proving one wrong (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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