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APPENDIX A. TALK.ABORTION: AUGUST 9, 1994 141
> cities for demonstrations and blockades that cost
> millions in taxpayer money to police and control?
>
> Which side stages noisy demonstrations outside people’s
> houses at 3:AM, complete with bullhorns and claims
> they are merely "exercising their right of free speech"?
>
>
> Funny how the media can create such a negative image out
> of such innocent behavior......................
This kind of thinking, in my opinion, tends to respect only groups and
stereotypes, and gives no value to the individual. Shall we blame
innocent African-Americans for the fact that their race is often portrayed
as being delinquent and violent, or assume that they are all like Willie
Horton? Of course not! Then why should we blame innocent pro-lifers for
the fact that *their* group is portrayed as intolerant and fascist, and
assume that they are all Randall Terry wannabes?
--
Patrick Crotty
prc@physics.physics.wm.edu
Article 23
Reference 161401
From jrmo@prpix2.pr.att.com
Date Tue, Aug 2, 1994 6:19 PM
Ray Fischer writes:
>Easy. If you steal a 4 carat sapphire and swallow it, you gain _no_
>rights over it merely because it is now a content of your body. The
>rightful owner retains all rights to it.
Since the owner has rights to the sapphire, I suppose he is allowed
to destroy the human tissue surrounding it to retrieve his property,
or does he have to wait until the thief passes the sapphire or until
a doctor can surgically remove it without killing the thief?
The thief certainly has the right to remove the object from his body,
but he doesn’t have the right to destroy it, say by having a laser cut
it into tiny little pieces before removing it.
Joe Moore
Article 24
Reference 161471
From prc@physics.physics.wm.edu
Date Tue, Aug 2, 1994 6:20 PM
In article ethompso@nmsu.edu
(Erik T. Thompson) writes:
>Patrick Crotty (prc@physics.physics.wm.edu) wrote: