Claiming Darwin for the Left???
    William S. Lear 
    rael at zopyra.com
       
    Fri Nov 13 15:05:59 PST 1998
    
    
  
On Fri, November 13, 1998 at 14:26:25 (-0800) Marta Russell writes:
>                                              .... According to Singer,
>a baby can be ethically killed by its parents within 30 days of birth.
>His rationale: infants are nonpersons because they are not "rational and
>self-aware." ...
Does this apply to economists and other criminally deluded social
scientists?
This view is of course contrary to that of St. Augustine, who tells
us in his *Confessions* that "if babies are innocent, it is not for lack
of will to do harm, but for lack of strength."
Bill
    
    
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