Ted Rall for September 19, 2009
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Ruling that humans are no longer than endangered species, a wolf judge has declared open season on humans. (The human population can easily sustain a 30% harvest.) Lupine liberals, however, deplore human hunting as barbaric. (They're not the cutest creatures, but they are part of the ecosystem.) (You're not lupepa-morphasizing them humans. are you?) Hunters say they're saving human herds from starvation and protecting lupine farms from savage human attacks. (It's for their own good. They'll overbreed without regular cullings.) In the end, of course, it's all about spending a fun weekend.
Edmondd, I appreciate the discussion - which really is a discussion, rather than the mutual opprobrium that often passes for such on this forum - that you and fritzoid are having : well done ! But you might want to keep in mind that well over half those zygotes you mention are aborted, naturally, before the woman bearing them is even aware that they exist. The fact that this is so is, of course, as little a moral argument in favour of (induced) abortion as it would be one against the practice, but I find it nonetheless relevant to any discussion of the moral status of (human) zygotes….
Henri