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Subject:	Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:38:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:

Yeah, I know, it’s a hypothetical excercise, but why such a bad hypothetical excercise is always trotted out, I don’t know.

Probably because “‘An it harm none, do what thou will” is too pagan for y’all.

OK, I have to ask because I really don’t get this reply at all: http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=21278 How do you apply that principle to the issue of Abortion. Obviously my opinion is that the freedom of choice is whether or not to have sex and that abortion is a euphemism for murder. Oddly enough I am reminded of your ground beef analogy.

-Mike Petrucelli

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		Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
(...) I'm okay with idea of abortion as the killing of a living thing, but not as murder. Murder can be defined as "the unlawful killing of another person." I deny that a foetus is a person with rights under the law. The foetus is not independent, (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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		Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
(...) Probably because "'An it harm none, do what thou will" is too pagan for y'all. Besides, the former is part of French jurisprudence. -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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