Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!gatech!owens From: owens@gatech.UUCP (Gerald R. Owens) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Let's play a little game... Message-ID: <9283@gatech.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Jul-84 16:59:57 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.9283 Posted: Fri Jul 27 16:59:57 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jul-84 01:23:38 EDT References: <911@shark.UUCP> Organization: Georgia Tech School of ICS, Atlanta Lines: 35 >I want to play a game that every 2 year old is an expert at: >the game of `why'. I will ask a simple question, and you try >to answer it with a simple sentence or three. I repeat >`why', and you have to explain your answer. This tends to boil >things down to fundamental assumptions rather nicely. Keeping things >simple avoids going off the track, and avoids flaming emotionalism. >This could be fun... >First question (mostly to anti-abortionists): > "Why is abortion bad?" > Brian Peterson {ucbvax, ihnp4, } !tektronix!shark!brianp Sounds to me like an good proposition, provided that the one who is asking "why" has the capability of recognizing a good answer with more skill than a 2 year old has. Otherwise, one would just be arguing with a broken record stuck on the groove that utters "why?". How about a counter question: "What is the fundamental difference between a born member of the human race and an unborn member of the same race, that is so large that terminating the life of one would be called murder, but the termination of the other life would not be called murder?" Gerald Owens Owens@gatech