>A Modest Proposal
>For those who want to live without destroying anything, plant or animal,
>because all living things have rights, I suggest eating only what
>doesn't have rights, is not "alive" and is completely expendable for the sake
>of increasing human utility: the human fetus. It's the only thing we can kill
>with a clear conscience, knowing that our benefit more than compensates for
>its>death. All other living things, animal and plant, are more important, and
>worthy of our deepest respect. Anyone want to join me?
Not a Chance!!!!
Excuse me, but 1) fetuses are potentially animal...just not fully realized
animal. 2) When they kill female cows and pigs that are pregnant, the fetuses
die as well. 3) I don't think "human utility" has much influence on whether
a human female decides to carry a fetus until it becomes human. I think it
is a complex issue not easily charaterized or dismissed. When you are
able to become pregnant (yourself) and have to face the decision, then talk
about it.
amy
