(July 26, 2013 at 4:23 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: You’re better than that FNM, the article Min linked to described it that way; I was simply using the same phraseology to make a point. It’s sickening you’d describe a person as a “small group of cells”, there is no respect for human dignity anymore.
I am, and if I misunderstood what you are implying, I apologize.
That "small group of cells," however, is not a person. It is a potential person. Big difference.
I have respect for human dignity, which is why I would never force a rape victim to carry to term a constant reminder of that violation.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
