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msg-560424a3c2c5f612d07980e7c5a74384
talk.environment
31 Mar 2002 06:04:45 -0800
Donald L Ferrt
Plant patents sow seeds of destruction
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,73%257E495259,00.html Plant patents sow seeds of destruction By Stan Cox Sunday, March 31, 2002 - Somebody's trying to patent fish and chips - the chips part, anyway. The nonprofit organization ActionAid has filed an application with the British Patent Office, claiming that ...
msg-8015f0eedec4466e876a0396e6983793
talk.environment
Mon, 01 Apr 2002 09:54:34 +0100
paul olive
Re: Plant patents sow seeds of destruction
it is completely necessary to patent them(but monsantos terminator gene is evil, however un fortunately legal) but if they have declared open season all plants i call the patents on cotton, maize, wheat, t omato,s and potatos as well as beans
msg-71a2427a461f89ad4115bac3a870909c
talk.environment
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:13:25 -0600
David Gossman
Re: Plant patents sow seeds of destruction
"Donald L Ferrt" <[email]> wrote in message news:[email]... The author's confusion over the difference between a copyright and pantent says a great deal about the logic of the rest of the post. A socialist initiative that has at its roots the destruction of private property rights. Patents on varieties of roses have...
msg-4b4994001c2f5ae2e592b39104699b47
talk.environment
31 Mar 2002 16:42:44 -0800
Donald L Ferrt
Re: Plant patents sow seeds of destruction
"David Gossman" <[email]> wrote in message news:<a87g6m$ca4$[email]>... Or shows you lack of perception of reality! The author was using an analogy! To the contrary! It delineates among concepts of privacy! Since the Libertarians want to privatize the ocean, the air we breath or even the sun we get = as if they co...
msg-7aa21fa1523bf5b20043241df461297c
talk.environment
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 19:53:41 GMT
Rufio
Re: Plant patents sow seeds of destruction
"David Gossman" <[email]> wrote in message news:a87g6m$ca4$[email]... Can't patent a book - unless it's a new design. All other books should be PD. But it may be possible to copyright the contents You use the term 'socialist' like it's a bad thing! And before discussing property rights, you might want to read Alan De...
msg-95d5075afe8e5300c1376feaff455346
talk.environment
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:17:18 -0600
David Gossman
Re: Plant patents sow seeds of destruction
"Donald L Ferrt" <[email]> wrote in message news:[email]... news:<a87g6m$ca4$[email]>... pantent And if you understood what I was saying you would understand that the analogy does not hold because of the differences between a patent and a copyright. It is rather clear, between your not understanding this and your inabi...
msg-d0ab94d5b3948436c308890e965aa571
talk.environment
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 15:06:35 -0600
David Gossman
Re: Plant patents sow seeds of destruction
"Rufio" <[email]> wrote in message news:9PJp8.10406$[email]... Socialism is the based on the philosophy that the state is more important than the individual and by its very nature socialism stands opposed to the rights of the individual. Of course it is a bad thing - unless you are a totalitarian dictator - then it wo...
msg-4a82b6c3314461b5adecb58edd8361eb
talk.environment
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:33:11 GMT
Rufio
Re: Plant patents sow seeds of destruction
"David Gossman" <[email]> wrote in message news:a87trs$2r4$[email]... private discussing "Shouting Didn't go as far as unreservedly promoting socialism. But it can also be seen as recognising the needs of society, rahter than those of the individual. I've been unemployed, andreceived unemployment payments - but now I'...
msg-4023c14aab435c1202c6900aa9dd72cd
talk.environment
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 18:55:16 -0600
David Gossman
Re: Plant patents sow seeds of destruction
"Rufio" <[email]> wrote in message news:rgLp8.10666$[email]... important the When the "needs" of society take over the rights of the individual you can bet that a politician in power is the winner. "Needs of society" are made up to keep someone in power. The logic and the history is quite evident. And there is no nee...
msg-24a61e5c8fe70153950047b1db4599d6
talk.abortion
Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:40:45 -0400
james g. keegan jr.
Re: Women Want to Know of Abortion Risks Beforehand, New Survey Shows
In article <[email]>, "osprey" <[email]> wrote: can you cite any relevant statutes which prevent a man from having an abortion? or were you referring to men who had been raped?
msg-a3cccd47769926d031a60cf0cd67e570
talk.abortion
Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:20:55 GMT
David W. Barnes
Re: Women Want to Know of Abortion Risks Beforehand, New Survey Shows
In article <[email]>, james g. keegan jr. <[email]> wrote: Its amazing, isn't it. That is the same argument he uses to support discriminating against gays. "They can marry those of the opposite sex like everyone else." Osprey is an unbelievable hypocrite.
msg-cb7667c4d8dfdf241a7cb4beee20cc2b
talk.abortion
Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:45:42 -0400
james g. keegan jr.
Re: Women Want to Know of Abortion Risks Beforehand, New Survey Shows
In article <[email]>, "David W. Barnes" <[email]> wrote: coward bobby will run away from my question, and its implications.
msg-825139508993f477c3ded5a367f47191
talk.atheism
Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:14:15 -0700
John C.
Re: Twenty Questions for Evolutionists Answered
On Sep 7, 8:00 pm, Matt Silberstein <[email]> wrote: Let me provide a few in no particular order: Biblical Creation predicts that there is something to observe and make predictions about. Observed evidence: there is a wide variety of phenomena about which observations and predictions are made. While this may seem ...
msg-ca24e10b552ebbdcede1e4917b163b90
talk.atheism
Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:59:40 -0700
David V.
Re: Twenty Questions for Evolutionists Answered
John C. wrote: No. All creationism says is "goddidit." There are no predictions, nothing to observe, no discoveries possible, no arguments possible, just sacrosanct religious dogma. Nor would it want to. No reason to create a creator. Your strawman arguments are not working. What facts? They accept only religiou...
msg-e622550dae225a480e637b0e0ae6157c
talk.atheism
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:35:22 -0400
Matt Silberstein
Re: Twenty Questions for Evolutionists Answered
On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:14:15 -0700, "John C." <[email]> wrote: To be a scientific prediction it has to predict something other than the observations used to create the model. Predicting that there is something to observe is week on the face of it and useless and a real prediction. That is just silly. It is creationi...
msg-04a4e445d774cfad686d8180d4cc6686
talk.atheism
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:30:27 -0800 (PST)
Jahnu
Re: Abiogenesis? hahaha :)
On Mar 1, 9:13 am, Free Lunch <[email]> wrote: When it comes to knowledge of science, intelligence, and even ordinary common sense, I am quantum leaps ahead of you. I repeat, there is aboslutely no scientific evidence in support of neither abiogenesis nor ET. It is pure fanciful speculation and wishful thinking. If y...
msg-8aedbba549948116cccd8436f295cbec
talk.atheism
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:00:19 -0500
Olrik
Re: Abiogenesis? hahaha :)
Le 2010-03-01 00:30, Jahnu a �crit : Do you look exactly like you mother or your father? If not, then evolution happened. And in time, say a few thousands years, a mutation might occur where you'll grow a neuron.
msg-feb61c39ec9229ed46e453a29494fd00
talk.atheism
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:04:27 -0500
Tim Miller
Re: Abiogenesis? hahaha :)
Jahnu wrote: You do realize that "quantum leaps" are almost invisibly SMALL, don't you? More evidence of your ignorance of science?
msg-f54693b9f5ef67b450c7c0fce4129f02
talk.atheism
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:35:03 -0600
Free Lunch
Re: Abiogenesis? hahaha :)
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:30:27 -0800 (PST), Jahnu <[email]> wrote in alt.talk.creationism: You are free to say what you want, but it's not true just because you said so. You have demonstrated your ignorance. That's not too bad. What is bad is that you are proud of your ignorance, as all of the evolution-deniers around h...
msg-a94314e6e5e1f860eed8dc213f677de8
talk.politics.guns
Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:15:37 -0700 (PDT)
[redacted]
John McCain Confronted on USS Liberty Cover-up & Media Accomplices
John McCain Confronted on USS Liberty Cover-up & Media Accomplices http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2d0CKXy8HQ&list=PL32A3140D59BF5772&feature=plpp_play_all http://tinyurl.com/mccainconfronted Additional via http://tinyurl.com/mccainussliberty
msg-5db132822858ee05a1e8d632db541db4
talk.politics.guns
Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:40:48 -0700 (PDT)
[redacted]
Re: John McCain Confronted on USS Liberty Cover-up & Media Accomplices
Phil, I suggest you follow the Lord's advice when dealing with this fellow and... "go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge." - Proverbs 14:7
msg-c621639e53e129bdb873f42fb038b1b8
talk.politics.guns
Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:53:14 -0700 (PDT)
[redacted]
Re: John McCain Confronted on USS Liberty Cover-up & Media Accomplices
Another apparent Israel first fifth columnist who more than like would go on and on about the 'Holocaust' but couldn't care less about Israel murdering/maiming Americans on the USS Liberty (especially when there is no statute of limitations for murder as I mentioned in the following email to John McCain which he st...
msg-60f118f50f3b251a8ed72d66c2ad80ac
talk.politics.guns
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:29:45 +0000 (UTC)
Gray Guest
Re: John McCain Confronted on USS Liberty Cover-up & Media Accomplices
[email] wrote in news:[email]: Hey idiot, that was 45 years ago. Got anything more current or relevant? -- I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. What I like about this attitude is it works equally well for Iran and the Democrat National Covention. htt...
msg-ea5be13f136ffdff0b2ee0efcb80896d
talk.politics.guns
Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:02:51 +0000 (UTC)
Gray Guest
Re: John McCain Confronted on USS Liberty Cover-up & Media Accomplices
[email] wrote in news:[email]: I suggest you piss off, ya loon. -- I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. What I like about this attitude is it works equally well for Iran and the Democrat National Covention. http://nukeitfromorbit.com/
msg-baf77fbcb3d73e1b6b41fcec5915a4d3
talk.politics.guns
Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:12:46 +0000 (UTC)
Gray Guest
Re: John McCain Confronted on USS Liberty Cover-up & Media Accomplices
[email] wrote in news:0288d0bc-93a8-4095- [email]: 4327- Oh dear God! Kill yourself ya loon. -- I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. What I like about this attitude is it works equally well for Iran and the Democrat National Covention. http://nukeitf...
msg-70c2642ed7f2b6713cb9b7e2bbf42e75
talk.politics.medicine
1999/12/21
Bloody Viking
Perverse Effects of Single-Payer. (WAS: uninsured crisis brewing?)
CAUTION: Content is distasteful. Do not read while eating. Herman Rubin ([email]) wrote: : Those who would restrict care, and this will be almost an : immediate result of the costs of centralized insurance, will : guarantee that good healthcare is not available, just as : governments have made good education unavai...
msg-39ceda2b819c6a07b003d5b07217c2c8
talk.politics.medicine
1999/12/21
jenwolf
Re: Perverse Effects of Single-Payer. (WAS: uninsured crisis brewing?)
Bloody Viking wrote: I'm not so sure about that. From what I saw of Finland's system, the people didn't seem to be lacking in the treatments they needed, but truthfully I wasn't there long enough to really get an idea what it's all about. So we make it so it's not like an HMO.
msg-a7c78763a6f029c3955af3ac95ea3bb3
talk.politics.medicine
1999/12/21
jenwolf
Re: Perverse Effects of Single-Payer. (WAS: uninsured crisis brewing?)
Bloody Viking wrote: Or Kill yourself. Boy, wouldn't the HMOs squeal with delight if suicide/assisted suicide were legal!
msg-e489f8d4f0d4f538e18049f1d4f61da6
talk.politics.medicine
1999/12/22
Jerome Bigge
Re: Perverse Effects of Single-Payer. (WAS: uninsured crisis brewing?)
On 21 Dec 1999 01:40:36 GMT, [email] (Bloody Viking) wrote: You make a very good case for elimination of prescription laws. However, those without insurance here in the US would be far better off with "single payer" than they are now. And people would not have to worry about losing their jobs, not being able to get ...
msg-69e96e304f696a29b4dd2f656e0bca22
talk.politics.medicine
1999/12/21
George Conklin
Re: Perverse Effects of Single-Payer. (WAS: uninsured crisis brewing?)
In article <83mlqk$dv9$[email]>, Bloody Viking <[email]> wrote: Funny. They have universal access, with everyone getting health care, only a dream in the USA. They have better results. We ration health care all over the place only we lie about it by saying that the uninsured are not severly rationed all the time....
msg-345565f72906a43118b073ef5fe97250
talk.politics.medicine
1999/12/26
Bloody Viking
Re: Perverse Effects of Single-Payer. (WAS: uninsured crisis brewing?)
Jerome Bigge ([email]) wrote: : You make a very good case for elimination of prescription laws. Indeed, I do. However, I'm a special case. While eliminating Prescription would work for me it would have adverse side effects like addiction with most people. The original purpose for Prescription was for cuttind down o...
msg-c3fc4f989c9fc82ee0d66e5c83dae748
talk.abortion
25 Feb 2007 01:46:13 -0800
[redacted]
OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids By Denise Noe The Alice Crimmins case broke in 1965 when the two young children of the attractive, red-haired woman, who was separated from her husband, were found dead in different vacant lots. My first encounter with the sensational case was through ...
msg-6c3484f60a4aa53e93529550bd7cd771
talk.abortion
13 Mar 2007 17:34:01 -0700
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: . Ah, but you *should* be able to see my point. Restricting abortion does not enslave the woman for the needs of the fetus. It prevents her from exploiting the fetus for her own sake. The fact that the sex act gained comes *before* the crime of murder that facilitates it matters not one whit. Fetu...
msg-d7a76f31e2b38c9bed118c23b2af4f75
talk.abortion
13 Mar 2007 20:23:22 -0700
elizabeth
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Mar 13, 5:34 pm, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: the fetus is exploiting and harming her considerably. And the fact is, most zygotes die long before birth. There is a much higher spontaneous abortion and stillbirth rate than is commonly known, which is a factor in why women who have failed pregnancies have so many pr...
msg-9cd231c89246be41fcf6baaba8248305
talk.abortion
14 Mar 2007 05:34:27 -0700
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
elizabeth wrote: Taking care of the children here now is a separate question. Making it legal to shoot six-month-olds to solve the problem of starving three-year-olds is not the right direction to move in to create a society founded on humane principles. John Savard
msg-d44fc2080225f961e9fb13aced1746ea
talk.abortion
14 Mar 2007 14:31:04 -0700
elizabeth
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Mar 14, 5:34 am, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: Actually, most young children are killed by their parents or caretakers .. . esp those who didn't want a child in the first place .. . so you are in favor of killing children, since that is a forseeable outcome of mandating gestation. Even people who want a kid are mos...
msg-571a2517f68d961eb42066648a49d9c5
talk.abortion
12 Mar 2007 22:29:46 -0700
elizabeth
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Mar 10, 7:08 pm, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: snip So is life these days. We haven't been "natural" for generations. Dying of communicable diseases is "natural" and vaccinations is not natural. I'll stick with all the unnaturalness of modern life and modern medicine. When there is no more rape, then maybe you mi...
msg-2ccce4e81d484601de05a3d860a44016
talk.abortion
13 Mar 2007 04:27:36 -0700
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Robert wrote: The darky's importance is based solely on his master's choice, and is none of your damyankee business. John Savard
msg-fd3fce13b8f6929c12cb5ca5ea4e24ad
talk.abortion
13 Mar 2007 04:36:16 -0700
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
elizabeth wrote: Indeed. The idea that men have such a "need" for sex that it licenses them to enslave women is apparently assumed by many. But because women can fight back, this kind of thinking has found a new outlet. Why not just tell women that their children aren't really children until they're born, so they w...
msg-872d9b1630635a7c06c33027370679c2
talk.abortion
10 Mar 2007 17:56:44 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: That's simply silly, because you could justify infanticide in precisely the same way. John Savard
msg-86cd39b279f0865ed1b9a6f4a94b7510
talk.abortion
10 Mar 2007 17:58:10 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: Ah, so it's *already* safe, legal, *and* rare. Bill Clinton should be pleased. John Savard
msg-7e294fb812c6217f57ce47527a3de661
talk.abortion
10 Mar 2007 18:08:28 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: It is natural and common that people choose to engage in sex, but that is still a chosen action on their part. Rape is violent, wicked, and hence unnatural. It isn't a natural consequence of a date the way that going "splat" is a natural consequence of jumping out of a fifteenth-story window. But ...
msg-a21727790f491ae23fb948e73851127f
talk.abortion
11 Mar 2007 04:11:57 -0700
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: . Abortion does, in fact, kill. That the goal is escaping from pregnancy does not change things. The goal of an armed bank robber is unearned wealth, not the death of security guards, tellers, or police. But that is no excuse. Neither is escaping from pregnancy, at the cost of an innocent child's ...
msg-2db5394c700445b04be077047063744e
talk.abortion
11 Mar 2007 17:00:37 -0700
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
james g. keegan jr. wrote: The patient who benefits may take a risk. And cancer cells and microbes are not worth worrying about. But killing innocent unborn children to facilitate sexual freedom is another matter. That is exploitative. Your argument makes no sense - except, of course, by assuming the most important ...
msg-69da1506171502d3f6f52200d84d7a36
talk.abortion
8 Mar 2007 19:13:40 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Robert wrote: Would it be desirable not to hate serial killers? I do not claim sainthood, but I think my reasoning does not leave me open to all these charges of being vicious and evil. Unless, of course, some fact not yet mentioned in this discussion needs to be brought forwards. Obviously, the power to make up any...
msg-461dd6f582cc7fb08744d558e94d10f9
talk.abortion
8 Mar 2007 19:18:27 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
james g. keegan jr. wrote: Many people support the continued existence of legalized abortion. Human fetuses are human organisms in an immature state of development. Abortion is performed on private initiative, and it is premeditated. If a belief is unreasonable, the right to act based on that belief is more limited...
msg-e5de9693206559caca444e86a0c0b0de
talk.abortion
9 Mar 2007 14:46:53 -0800
elizabeth
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Mar 8, 7:18 pm, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: snip And since men haev no consequences if they FREELY CHOOSE to rape women and to coerce them into having sex, it follows that men are totally irresponsible and therefore should be castrated, since they are so out of control, and since they have no negative sequela to s...
msg-939177ef10eef2fb21e19bb69b8f047e
talk.abortion
9 Mar 2007 18:06:11 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
james g. keegan jr. wrote: And, while no one calls for the murder of innocent ones whom *you* call children, of course, as you say, legal abortion has supporters. And human fetuses are, in fact, human children. It's just lying bigots who try to put a different face on abortion than that. So I'm not the one telling li...
msg-8c3ff7791db5796c7c9c537dee117580
talk.abortion
9 Mar 2007 18:10:23 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: No. Gametes can be differentiated from children relatively simply, on a *principled* basis. Fetuses and infants, however, are very similar. Drawing a dividing line between them *is* clearly and obviously arbitrary. A sperm cell doesn't develop into a child. A fetus does grow to be a human adult. ...
msg-1bd9389b3a261608bb4b451a73270066
talk.abortion
10 Mar 2007 02:40:10 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
elizabeth wrote: For one thing, I do not condone rape. For another thing, we all have to trade in order to live. Men work in boring, exhausting, or dangerous jobs to purchase food, because they do not own farms of their own. Also, I am not trying to settle moral questions for the Third World. Instead, I look at the...
msg-a03bc43a07d78f536f5eb8d2bc27a251
talk.abortion
10 Mar 2007 02:50:56 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: Outright lies? No, fetuses and infants really are similar. Self-serving hypocrisy? Now, that is perhaps a charge to be examined more seriously. After all, the fetus has a woman connected to it. I agree with you that the fetus doesn't have the right to exploit the woman to survive. But I also agr...
msg-e2990372911806046dfebc55274b5a32
talk.abortion
10 Mar 2007 02:56:02 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Robert wrote: You want bigotry? Treating a young child as though he or she were just a puppy or kitten, who we may drown or otherwise humanely kill if we don't choose to accept the burden of feeding it, simply because that young child hasn't transitioned from placental oxygen exchange to respiratory breathing. That's...
msg-9c90a3affd5b9bac1ff4d81c5264d128
talk.abortion
10 Mar 2007 10:19:54 -0800
elizabeth
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Mar 10, 2:40 am, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: Sure you do. And it's very, very common, whether you condone it or not. So the fact remains, most women in the world can"t "just say no" and if children are punishment for sex, you are in favor of punishing only women, which gives men no incentive to quit raping and a...
msg-e01a6aaa65c469737f445833df8ce1c6
talk.abortion
7 Mar 2007 21:31:46 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: I am not sure how you infer hatred from my post. I don't want innocent children to be killed. I believe that it isn't reasonable to think that fetuses aren't children. I think adults are the ones responsible for their own freely chosen sexual activities. On what basis do you justify using an emoti...
msg-4e9dc38637a8a774824a3f0a931749b8
talk.abortion
8 Mar 2007 14:24:40 -0800
elizabeth
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Mar 7, 9:31 pm, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: forcing women to gestate against their will is a clear indication of hate, at best. A fetus is not a child, and can be neither innocent nor guilty. And we kill children, and adults, by omission and comission all the time--few of them are "guilty" in any sense. Unlike fe...
msg-daf75bb5a444f89c09f39c50247ef0c4
talk.abortion
5 Mar 2007 18:34:26 -0800
elizabeth
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Mar 2, 9:40 pm, [email] (Ray Fischer) wrote: Wrong. I merely point out to the womenhaters that banning abortion won't end it, you have to ban unwanted pregnancy, and castration is the only 100% effective, 100% safe, and inexpensive way to completely end unwanted pregnancy. Which would end abortion. I don't mind ...
msg-7ae8f18e694f3a53bb232fb445c87ea4
talk.abortion
4 Mar 2007 09:49:23 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: But they do choose to participate in sex. It's a choice. Why should other people pay for a woman's activities? Sex is, after all, optional. Now, this argument would be severely weakened if sex were not merely *as natural* as breathing, but *as essential* as breathing to life. While it's true that...
msg-c6ec07c56f8e7f9398eb08056545f761
talk.abortion
4 Mar 2007 13:24:39 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
james g. keegan jr. wrote: . . . . The embryo or fetus with whom she is pregnant. Of course, if you can show that it is reasonable to deny that it is the same as a born baby as far as its right not to be unjustly killed is concerned, then there would be no problem. John Savard
msg-c8325acf55744b98b4ebc5e5ec7faa75
talk.abortion
3 Mar 2007 20:25:58 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: Embryos don't really choose to implant, but adults do really choose to have sex. When people make choices, and they know these choices have a certain natural probability of a natural result, why wouldn't *they* be the ones responsible, instead of someone else with no choice in the matter who is jus...
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3 Mar 2007 20:31:33 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
elizabeth wrote: (snip) In order to make sense out of a complicated world, we do have to generalize and simplify. When I look out the window at the world around me, I don't see a perfect world. But rape is still the exception and not the rule. The world I believe I live in bears no resemblance to, say, Gor, the wor...
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2 Mar 2007 13:41:21 -0800
elizabeth
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Mar 1, 7:53 pm, [email] (Ray Fischer) wrote: Wrong. Too many women are victims, and far too many men are perpetrators. When that balances, you might have a point. I'd prefer that it be balanced by men being less violent than women getting more violent . .. but being nice hasn't worked to stop men from not hurtin...
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1 Mar 2007 17:25:50 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
elizabeth wrote: I'm sure Pierre Trudeau would have gotten around to it eventually. John Savard
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1 Mar 2007 17:31:14 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Robert wrote: If someone were to kidnap a woman, and drain her blood to keep a baby alive, of course that would be evil. Because there's the woman, minding her own business - and the needs of the baby don't create a right to steal from her or do violence to her. In abortion, though, the _status quo ante_ is that the...
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1 Mar 2007 12:27:46 -0800
elizabeth
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Feb 28, 9:58 pm, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: snip The problem is that men refuse to listen to No. And that's why sexual assualt, sexual slavery, etc still continue. Because of what *men* do, not women. when men stop forcing women to have sex, or are responsible enough to get vasectomies, which is the cheapest, sa...
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1 Mar 2007 12:30:43 -0800
elizabeth
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Feb 28, 10:58 pm, [email] (Ray Fischer) wrote: Far fewer than men have been convicted for rape . .. and that's not counting all the cases where the woman's word was not deemed sufficient. Like with Richard Allen Davies. You know, the dude who killed Polly Klass. He had been arrested for a particularly brutal sex...
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1 Mar 2007 17:23:00 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: Yes, she should be grateful she doesn't have to supply four male witnesses. That is a difficult offense to prove as well. If only 2% of rapes end in conviction, and we can't improve that number very much without making it possible for a malicious woman to easily convict any man she chooses, then w...
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28 Feb 2007 21:53:40 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Robert wrote: Do people who get cancer have to steal and kill to get their treatment? No. Abortion is only objectionable because it *hurts someone else*, the fetus killed by it. John Savard
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28 Feb 2007 21:58:39 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
elizabeth wrote: Of course I assume exactly that - that women can Just Say No. That unless sex is actually and obviously rape, a rare and exceptional violent crime, then it has two partners who are jointly and severally responsible for it. And so, when the unfortunate fetus sues for gestational services, it goes aft...
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28 Feb 2007 18:41:58 -0800
elizabeth
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Feb 28, 3:38 am, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: But we don't. Only about 2% of rapes end in conviction. Rape is a very easy crime to get away with--because the woman is always held accountable for what men do, even now. Then please do so, since it's never been tried before. Castration is much simpler and easier. ...
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27 Feb 2007 20:22:06 -0800
elizabeth
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Feb 27, 5:24 pm, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: A fetus is not a child, and can be neither innocent nor guilty. It is, however, harming the woman. So only women are responsible for pregnancy? So you are asserting that men are totally out of control, can't be held responsible .. .. then we should just castrate the me...
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28 Feb 2007 03:38:04 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
elizabeth wrote: No, but we can't do much to them that will directly help the fetus, can we? Certainly we can punish men for rape. We can even punish men for knowingly having intercourse with women who they know aren't contracepting, who they know are likely to abort if they become pregnant. Or even just being carel...
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27 Feb 2007 17:24:24 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: No. Pregnancy is not sustained by acts of will on the part of the woman. Yes, the woman is stuck with a parasite... but she may not kill an innocent child to escape this misfortune. It's like someone embezzling money to pay a gambling debt. Because although the fetus is the parasite, it's adult s...
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27 Feb 2007 17:27:01 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Robert wrote: I would certainly agree - *if* we were talking about, say, forcing a woman to become pregnant. To carry an embryo that was in frozen storage at a fertility clinic, for example. But we're talking about a woman who is *already* pregnant. Pregnancy is natural, not imposed by the government. To end the pre...
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27 Feb 2007 18:31:45 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: Perhaps I just define "actively" differently than you do. I see that I *spell* it differently than you do. John Savard
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26 Feb 2007 18:41:00 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Robert wrote: That may be, but then it ought to be easy to explain *why*. I can see that what I think isn't important to you. But I don't know how intelligent you are, and even if you are an intelligent person, that wouldn't mean you were typical of intelligent people in general. John Savard
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27 Feb 2007 00:19:59 -0800
[redacted]
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Hi, John. Did you read my article on the Alice Crimmins case? I'd be very interested in any thoughts you might have.
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27 Feb 2007 03:00:39 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: You can look at it that way. However, the poster to which I was replying simply said that life begins at birth. He didn't explain which possible definition of life he was using. Obviously, metabolic processes and cell division *don't* begin at birth. It's true that "for the past several millenia"...
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27 Feb 2007 03:10:40 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: . I go on living and I don't give all my money to Oxfam or Unicef or whatever. Is that the same as taking a gun, pointing it at someone's head, and firing? No. Which one is abortion more similar to, in relation to the fetus or embryo? The latter. Women don't just walk away from being pregnant. ...
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27 Feb 2007 03:12:33 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
[email] wrote: Based on your post, not the article, I have one comment: If you don't want people convicted of crimes based on circumstantial evidence that isn't quite ironclad... provide a Scotch-style "not proven" verdict as an exception to the double-jeopardy rule. John Savard
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26 Feb 2007 04:36:46 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Robert wrote: Well, it's about a woman who is believed to have killed two of her own children. Also, the evidence against her was not ironclad, according to the post, so Denise puts forward the hypothesis that her sexual history helped jurors conclude that she was guilty. This does relate, even if not directly, to t...
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26 Feb 2007 09:06:36 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Robert wrote: I knew that, and I was pointing out that what she could be seen as doing is instead saying that the pro-life conclusion that women who abort are committing infanticide may be *influenced* by their hostility to sexual activity. But I'm curious as to what grounds you have for objecting to equating infanti...
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26 Feb 2007 11:53:54 -0800
[redacted]
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Feb 26, 7:36 am, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: (Denise) Actually, it wasn't pro-choice or pro-life. It was off-topic which was why I put OT. The reason I posted it here is because I frequently post here, respect the thoughts of many others who post here, and wondered what they would think of this crime case. I co...
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26 Feb 2007 13:24:05 -0800
[redacted]
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Feb 26, 6:00 pm, Robert <[email]> wrote: (Denise) Did you read my Crime Library piece on the case? Or do you base your conclusions on books read or newspaper articles or what?
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26 Feb 2007 14:22:37 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Ray Fischer wrote: The fetus winds up dead. People who perform abortions know full well they are taking actions which are lethal to the embryo. That they are doing so with another end in view does not protect them from culpability in homicide. And so it is. But embryos don't summon themselves into existence from non-...
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26 Feb 2007 14:37:40 -0800
Quadibloc
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Robert wrote: An infant has been born, and a fetus or embryo has not. So? Why is "born" any more important than, say, "weaned"? Life begins at birth? Does the heart start beating at birth? Does electrical activity in the brain begin at birth? Life is, or is not, present in beings out there depending on their own intr...
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25 Feb 2007 13:56:30 -0800
[redacted]
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On Feb 25, 12:32 pm, Robert <[email]> wrote: (Denise) OT stands for "off-topic."
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Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:32:19 -0800
Robert
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On 25 Feb 2007 01:46:13 -0800, "[email]" <[email]> wrote: WTF does this have to do with abortion rights?
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Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:59:54 -0400
james g. keegan jr.
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
In article <[email]>, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: of course it does. no, it would subjugate her to the whims of crazed neocons who argue the rights of the fetus while concurrently abandoning the interests of children. "You have confirmed my suspicion that those who argue the rights of the fetus view the woman a...
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14 Mar 2007 02:40:20 GMT
Ray Fischer
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Quadibloc <[email]> wrote: Your point is that your opinion is "correct" and everybody should be forced to do as you say. Just like restricting escapes didn't enslave blacks to the demands of the slaveowners.
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Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:28:24 -0800
Robert
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On 14 Mar 2007 05:34:27 -0700, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: And no one is suggesting shooting sex month old babies, unless you pro lifers, have decided to do so instead of murdering Doctors and Nurses. No society that denies women the right to choose to abort a unwanted pregnancy is founded on humane principles. ...
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13 Mar 2007 12:11:22 GMT
Ray Fischer
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Quadibloc <[email]> wrote: 'The idea that [fetuses] have such a "need" for [a woman's body] that it licenses them to enslave women is apparently assumed by many.'
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11 Mar 2007 02:57:49 GMT
Ray Fischer
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Quadibloc <[email]> wrote: Nope. You can justify adoption the same way. You depend upon the lie that abortion is about killing, but once that sleaze is rejected then you have nothing left.
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11 Mar 2007 02:59:42 GMT
Ray Fischer
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Quadibloc <[email]> wrote: Ah, so the pro-liar resorts to the usual babbling idiocy.
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11 Mar 2007 03:04:46 GMT
Ray Fischer
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Quadibloc <[email]> wrote: Forced childbirth is "violent, wicked, and hence unnatural". Sex is a "natural consequence of [dating] *in just that way*."
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11 Mar 2007 17:10:41 GMT
Ray Fischer
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Quadibloc <[email]> wrote: So do you. Yes, it does. Do you send money to your ISP in order to kill children? Are YOU a murderer?
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Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:20:44 -0400
james g. keegan jr.
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
In article <[email]>, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: so does cancer surgery and antibiotics.
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Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:38:57 -0800
Robert
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
On 11 Mar 2007 17:00:37 -0700, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: The fetus importance is based solely on the woman's choice, and is none of your self righteous business.
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Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:09:29 -0400
james g. keegan jr.
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
In article <[email]>, "Quadibloc" <[email]> wrote: nice of you to allow patient to make personal medical decisions. are you directing others as to what they may think is important? tisk. tisk. there is no such thing as "innocent unborn children" although i understand the need of some low iq types to pretend that ...
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12 Mar 2007 04:10:26 GMT
Ray Fischer
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Quadibloc <[email]> wrote: Your entire argument is that women should be forced to suffer through childbirth because you say so.
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09 Mar 2007 04:37:04 GMT
Ray Fischer
Re: OT: The confusing case of Alice Crimmins: promiscuity and killed kids
Quadibloc <[email]> wrote: It is desirable not to hate. [...] "To say that a [sperm] is not a child because children are born - by definition - allows an *arbitrary* definition to rule us." Some moment must be chosen. Birth is, by far, the most practical. Your assumption that a fetus has some right to a woman's ...