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I post this only to highlight the level of critical thinking going on in supposedly educated people attending colleges across the land
1 posted on 12/09/2010 8:48:35 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

There was a time and place where people named “Zuckerman” fit in to that category too.


2 posted on 12/09/2010 8:50:40 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Lorianne

I really don’t know how to respond to such naked, abject, unadulterated evilness.


3 posted on 12/09/2010 8:51:42 AM PST by Celtic Cross (I AM the Impeccable Hat. (AKA The Pope's Hat))
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To: Lorianne
"the fact that it is not a person during the first trimester"

"The FACT"????

Oh, really? >:-(

Psalm 139 (NIV)
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.


If God believes we are 'persons' at conception, then that's good enough for me. Enough of this justification for murdering innocents in the womb. >:-(
5 posted on 12/09/2010 8:56:48 AM PST by pillut48 (Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
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To: Lorianne
I understand the perspective of the pro-life movement.

Clearly he doesn't.

6 posted on 12/09/2010 8:56:53 AM PST by trad_anglican
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To: Lorianne

What a knucklehead. Wonder who he voted for. And do you have a link straight to the article. The one atop brings up an error message for me.


7 posted on 12/09/2010 9:00:37 AM PST by mlizzy (Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee ...)
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8 posted on 12/09/2010 9:02:54 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Lorianne

“Although it could be argued that I would be missing out on future experiences, I would not have been aware of this deprivation and would therefore not have experienced this deprivation.”

oh, okay then. well argued. Critical thinking indeed. As they say, only a degreed college egghead could frame this sort of tortured argument. A sixth grader could shoot it down. I listen quietly to educated liberals talk and I’m frequently shocked by their intellectual shallowness. How did universities reward these morons with BAs, doctorates, PhDs?


9 posted on 12/09/2010 9:07:52 AM PST by moodyskeptic (Cultural warrior with a keyboard)
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To: Lorianne

he basically argues that anything done in secrecy will cause no harm, whether adultery or whatever.

I wonder if he’d argue that it’s ok for a mother to painlessly kill her six month baby in his sleep.

Based on his view of life, I wonder why caring what the fetus thinks should even matter.


10 posted on 12/09/2010 9:08:02 AM PST by MNDude (Legalize drugs! Ban the Happy Meal!)
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To: Lorianne
a fetus has no idea what is happening, as its brain is not developed enough for such advanced forms of awareness, thought and emotion. In the first trimester, a growing fetus cannot possibly understand what life is. It does not understand that it is being deprived of anything when an abortion is taking place.

God gave the natural right to life to human life in all its forms.Whether the form has passed a certain threshold of age or awareness is irrelevant.

11 posted on 12/09/2010 9:09:09 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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During the first trimester, a fetus has no idea what is happening, as its brain is not developed enough for such advanced forms of awareness, thought and emotion.

So murder is OK as long as the victim does not know he is being killed. So if a murder victim does not see his assailant take aim and fire, and if the victim's brains are instantly blown out by the high caliber projectile then its OK because he never knew he was being killed.

Brilliant! This should make a perfectly good legal defense in many drive by shootings, mafia hits, political assassinations ...

And does this mean Lee Harvey Oswald did nothing wrong?

12 posted on 12/09/2010 9:10:04 AM PST by Upstate NY Guy (Gen 15:16 The iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.)
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To: Lorianne

What an idiot. Singer extended this logic all the way up to 6 months after a child is born. And I got news for Zuckerman, abortion is legal up to 9 months and I don’t see him arguing for limiting abortion to the first trimester. He would have more credibility if he did, not his arguments, but his willingness to put himself on the line to ban abortion after the first trimester because the fetus then becomes a person. He will never do this, he cares to much about liberal approval and so he really is ok with all abortions, not just those in the first trimester.


13 posted on 12/09/2010 9:12:30 AM PST by HerrBlucher (Defund, repeal, investigate, impeach, convict, jail, celebrate.)
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To: Lorianne; wagglebee
We murder organisms we deem inferior to us without hesitance every day, and I personally believe fetuses fit into this category.

The Left is the Left is the Left. They exterminate that which does not fit in their world.

14 posted on 12/09/2010 9:14:03 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: Lorianne

With all due respect to this obviously much more enlightened than I fellow......how the hell do you know what another human being wants? Really? Do you know that I want you to go soak your head?


15 posted on 12/09/2010 9:14:19 AM PST by mockingbyrd (Remember in November.)
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To: Lorianne

Critical thinking was designed by Cultural Marxists and inserted into the Universities to destroy Western Civilization. It kills logic and reason and science (John Locke/St. Thomas Aquinas) which was the foundation of the prevailing Christian paradigm that we had in the US until the 50’s when the minds of children were being transformed into mush.

This secular humanism (turn to collective thought and conformity) was written about by William F. Buckley, Jr. in Man and God at Yale(1950) where a once Christian college was producing Keynesian Marxists (on purpose). He was rightly alarmed, as we see the results of MOST universities have adopted the Darwin, Marx model and all elementary schools teach cognitive dissonance (no logic in thinking) to even those in Kindergarten.

Destroy their knowledge base with junk and lies (Heather has two mommies) and children will be unable to process information. Ex-KGB agents had reported the infiltration in the media and schools in the 70’s. The promotion of drugs and sex in media and schools is to create a dysfunctional society who need a master.

My advice: Get your children and grandchildren out of public schools and away from the television which glorifies evil and makes fun of the good.

Children are conditioned—like Pavlov’s dogs. The Marxists combined Freud and all of psychological thinking and inserted it into a cultural Marxism to destroy marriage (the natural family) and Christianity (the force for individual rights and dignity to a human being).

They destroyed Christianity in South and Central America by twisting it with Marxist ideology—calling it Liberation Theology. It is what our Marxist commmander in chief attended for 20 years. It is demonic according to the Pope.

Alinsky and the one worship the devil.....small surprise there.


16 posted on 12/09/2010 9:14:42 AM PST by savagesusie
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To: Lorianne
Aside: If, for example, a wife cheats on her husband, but the husband never becomes aware of the affair, I would argue that this duplicity is not bad for the husband. If the wife is still loving and the husband is still happy, and if no one that knows about this affair negatively alters their behavior toward this man, he is unaffected.

He's a cuckold and those who do know of his ignorance and his wife's infidelity think him a sap and an idiot. But I guess it's okay because he's ignorant.

17 posted on 12/09/2010 9:15:28 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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And even if I was aware of what was happening, I do not think I would want to exist if my life was a mistake. I would not want to be a burden on a young woman still in high school.

There are kids who learn at some point in their life that they are a "mistake". None of them wish that they were dead.

18 posted on 12/09/2010 9:16:25 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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Kill the mother and save the child, Neuter the father, this makes as much sense as abortion.
20 posted on 12/09/2010 9:16:50 AM PST by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: Lorianne

Trees, rodents, insects, fish, and human fetuses: it’s all the same to the brilliant and enlightened like Zuckerman.


24 posted on 12/09/2010 9:19:48 AM PST by windsorknot
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However, we kill living things all the time. We chop down trees to build our homes, we kill rodents and insects when they intrude said homes, we kill fish and other animals for sport and for nutrition purposes, and neither microorganism nor mouse is safe in Smith Hall; they are constantly killed for educational and research purposes. We murder organisms we deem inferior to us without hesitance every day, and I personally believe fetuses fit into this category.

We do not have emotion for the reproductive gametes before they combine. When a man masturbates, I would be surprised to learn that he mourns the death of his sperm, as they die shortly after ejaculation. However, once a sperm cell combines with an egg and has the potential to become a human, people become very emotional, despite the fact that it is not a person during the first trimester, the time in which abortions are permitted.

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Zuckerman seems to have surpassed even Peter Singer in his lack of regard for human beings.

27 posted on 12/09/2010 9:25:46 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Lorianne

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you”
~ Jeremiah 1:5


28 posted on 12/09/2010 9:26:22 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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