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From: owens@gatech.UUCP (Gerald R. Owens)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Let's play a little game...
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Date: Fri, 27-Jul-84 16:59:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 27 16:59:57 1984
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  >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