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To: Arguendo

with your brilliant ‘economics” reasoning, why not just kill elderly people and harvest their organs. I mean, really THAt would be really economical for our country.

There are values that transcend economics and your argument just leaves those out...sort of like a lot of other brilliant scientific and economic theories.

We just found out that scientific advances in stem cell research now make embryonic stem cell creation needless.

I want to live in aworld that has values of pro life and human dignity as well as facing economic realities. And that is not easy, but the alternative is ugly.


17 posted on 12/20/2008 2:23:22 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (FREE BLAGO!!! LET HIM SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER!!!)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
with your brilliant ‘economics” reasoning, why not just kill elderly people and harvest their organs. I mean, really THAt would be really economical for our country.

Uh, because in my example the transaction is voluntary (at least as voluntary as many other decisions regarding money, such as whether to accept a job) and in the other it would be forced and in no way in the donor's interests.

You people who miss this distinction are impossible to reason with.

21 posted on 12/20/2008 7:20:26 AM PST by Arguendo
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