[lbo-talk] Re: I'm not sorry

[Shane Mage]

In this, as in everything else on the topic from Messrs. Estabrook
and Campbell (not to mention all the other prohibitionists) is a
glaring exhibition of what has aptly become known as the
*naturalistic fallacy*, first analyzed by David Hume.  "...Hume maintains
that no propositions about what ought to be can validly be deduced
from premises stating quite neutrally what as a matter of fact
actually did, or does, or will occur..." (Article *Philosophy* in
Collier's Encyclopedia, vol.18, p.725)

Shane Mage

"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all 
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even 
downright silly.

When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all 
things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true."  (N. 
Weiner)


>But to say that one's humanity depends on the the ability to survive
>outside the womb ("viability") is to apply a distressingly sliding scale:
>medical technology has changed that substantially in a rather short time.
>--CGE