From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 02:56:23 MST
Jeff writes
> For the Raelians, I'm thinkin' a criminal charge of
> "reckless endangerment/disregard for human life",
> independent of the condition of the child, based on
> problems observed in non-human cloning.
But the life that you'd charge them with "recklessly
endangering" didn't even exist before their actions!
It's a little bit like getting roadside assistance
from an absolute stranger and then blaming him
because he didn't change the tire fast enough.
If anybody doesn't treasure life that has been
brought into the world, it's not those who created
it, it's all the people who don't want to have to
look at it. Naturally they are only too eager to
stomp it out, and pass laws so that their aesthetic
sense is never troubled again.
If ">" is a preference relation, then
normal > abnormal > null.
Unless you want to track down all the thalidomide babies
and tell them that not only would the world be better off
without them, but that they too would be better off never
having been born.
Lee
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