----- Original Message ----- From: "Marta Russell" <ap888 at lafn.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:53 AM Subject: Re: Singer's views
> NO he doesn't. His line is drawn much earlier - This has already
> been posted on LBO in the past so I'm not going to take the time to
> look it up and give you the quote. It is in the archives and it is
> 28 or 30 days.
To paraphrase the Hitch: "Wrong. Wrong. Wrong as could be." The only reason Singer draws the line so very early is to avoid any charges that we lack the requisite certitude to model public policy based on the data at hand.
-- Luke
> So all these various "scientific" statements are really guesses, it
> is not known for certain.
> Can you imagine if society were to allow parents to kill their babies
> based on this? It would be absolute chaos.
>
> Marta
>
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> Marta Russell
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