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To: Savage Beast
Sir, if you'd read this story when it came out, you might feel differently. It was awful. The little girl was crying out that they were suffocating her, and they kept on despite it all, beating her with pillows and smothering her to death. It was one of the most awful stories I had heard in a very long time - and honestly, the representative is right on this one.
6 posted on 07/09/2002 5:34:29 AM PDT by Persuasion
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To: Persuasion
I still don't agree. Of course, no one should be allowed to beat and suffocate a child (or anyone else), but that's already illegal. "Rebirthing" does not and should not involve that, and if it doesn't there's no need to ban it.

People who beat, suffocate, and kill someone should be prosecuted under existing laws.

Anyone who wants to do "rebirthing" in a safe and legal way should be left alone.

There are many people, including many legislators, who would love to regulate and fine-tune everything--from whether or not you can smoke cigarettes to how much water your toilet reservoir may hold to whether or not you can do harmless rebirthing to what temperature your bath water should be. Every acquiescence to such things is a loss of liberty. They add up. Soon you're living in a Talibanesque society in which kites and music are banned and everyone must conform to a dress code. But long before it reaches that extreme, liberty is lost, and liberty is something valuable enough to die for. Any encroachment by government on liberty is to be resisted.

8 posted on 07/09/2002 6:17:47 AM PDT by Savage Beast
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To: Persuasion
See RipSawyer's post # 4.
10 posted on 07/09/2002 6:22:56 AM PDT by Savage Beast
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To: Persuasion
I agree.
11 posted on 07/09/2002 6:24:39 AM PDT by midwesterner
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