From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Tue Mar 03 1998 - 20:33:00 MST
At 04:48 PM 3/3/98 -0500, Reilly Jones wrote:
>
><But a fetus is not yet a person.>
>
>Purely by definition, and mostly, but not entirely, for convenience's sake.
> A slave was not a full person at the time we kicked those tyrannical Brits
>back across the Atlantic, either. Yet, solely by definition, they
>eventually became a person. Do you see the parallel?
>
This does *not* parallel.
WHITE/BLACK SLAVERY:
A green apple and a red apple are both apples. While superficially
different they are functionally identical. There is a measure of
equivalence between these two apples, so judgements should be based on a
principle of equivalence.
FETAL ABORTION:
Consider a green apple and a green apple *seed*. In this case we are more
concerned with the relationship being *equitable* because by definition
there is no equivalence. An equitable judgement will not always favor the
fetus.
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 14:48:41 MST