Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amdcad!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-rex!merrill From: merrill@rex.DEC Newsgroups: net.abortion,net.philosophy Subject: hidden assumption Message-ID: <487@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 20:04:34 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.487 Posted: Thu Feb 7 20:04:34 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 10:41:18 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 15 Xref: utcs net.abortion:1166 net.philosophy:1395 >> humans have rights because they can think People have rights because "we the people" have decided that they have "inalienable rights" and it has nothing to do with the amount or quality of their thinking. Even the dead have the legal right to have their "last will and testament" faithfully executed. Even the dead have a moral right to a decent burial. People 100 years old that cannot talk or walk have a right to food and shelter. We must preserve the rights of the "least" among us for someday they will be us! r i c k