Posted on 07/22/2006 10:54:09 AM PDT by Quiet Man Jr.
He is, however, correct in noting that "that if embryos are human beings with full human rights, fertility clinics are death camps -- with a side order of cold-blooded eugenics. No one who truly believes in the humanity of embryos could possibly think otherwise."
This, of course, leads into the question of what human lives should be protected. The embryos destroyed for stem cell research or IVF are living members of the human species. Mr. Kinsley doesn't deny this, but rather than parsing the logic of which human beings are not worthy of human rights, he makes emotional appeals, writing that, "I cannot share, or even fathom, their conviction that a microscopic dot -- as oblivious as a rock, more primitive than a worm -- has the same human rights as anyone reading this article."
One idly wonders what sort of worm Kinsley was referring to: The common earthworm; a nematode; or perhaps a platyhelminth? More relevantly, one wonders what he means by primitive. Considering a human embryo against an adult worm, the human has the more evolved information, but it has not yet had the time necessary to use the genetic blueprint in constructing the more advanced form. Mr. Kinsley's argument is akin to claiming that a Ph.D. thesis being sent to the printer is more primitive than the handwritten hard copy of a third grader's report.
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Uh, yeah.... and your point is?
The point is ... go to the source and read the whole article. Unless, of course, you think yourself overtaxed.
I was responding to Kinsley. Thus the italic quote and my response below it.
You're kinda sassy for a newbie.
Sorry, there's been a lot of sarcasm over this issue in other forums.
Who me, sarcastic?!? NNNNNNNNooooooooooooo
Haha. You people crack me up. For me, this is pure comedy. I mean, it's sad, and all, that your president has done such a fantastic job of totally alienating one of the world's greatest countries. But the irony is wonderfully funny. And you would all jump off a cliff if he or Anne Coulter told you to. It's marvellously funny. Just in case any of you were curious, America is now the laughing stock of Europe, and the United States doesn't seem to have many other potential allies. The sad part is, we've got to clean up the mess that that tosser Bush is making. I'm just glad that we're having a better government run America next time around - it certainly couldn't get any worse. But this forum... I just think it's so perfect. It's so easy to satirise, given the fact that you all agree on everything. If it has anything to do with (superficially) easily identifiable groups of people, you all jump on it like it's going out of fashion. It's so predictable as to be absurd. I love it. Keep up the good work. The rest of us need a good laugh.
Evidently we get under his skin ;-)
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