[Vision2020] Compassion for All Life

[Tony]

Nick, I'm afraid that I must conclude from your most recent offering that 
you are a certifiable crackpot.  Your self focused insistence on cognitive 
functioning as the only criteria by which we judge another's right to life 
exposes you as all mind and no heart, or most conspicuously, NO SOUL.

What are you having with your tea this morning Dr. Mengele?  Soylent Green 
cakes pressed from freeze dried fetal remains?

I pity you almost as much as I do your victims.

-T
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nickgier at adelphia.net>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 10:49 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Compassion for All Life


> Good Morning Visionaries:
>
> For those whose minds don't comprehend logical and physical possibilities, 
> I offer the following revision to my proposition about human beings and 
> persons:
>
> There are persons who are not human beings (whales, dolphins, gorillas, 
> and chimps), and there are human beings who are not persons (Karen Ann 
> Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, Terri Schiavo, and fetuses up to 25 weeks).
>
> With these clues anyone can now solve the Personhood Puzzle at 
> www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/personpuzzle.htm.  Send your solutions to me at 
> this address and your prize will be a six pack of frozen tofu burgers. 
> For carnivores I can offer a copy of my "Theology Bluebook."
>
> Definition: a person is any being with significant cognitive activity. 
> According to our moral, legal, and religious traditions, persons are the 
> only beings who have a serious moral right to life.
>
> Fact: Down Syndrome people and microcephalics have significant cognitive 
> activity compared to all other higher mammals except whales, dolphins, 
> gorillas, and chimps.
>
> Fact: Whales have larger brains than humans do as a proportion to body 
> size, and dolphins have 40 percent more cortical areas in their brains 
> than we do.
>
> A group of attorneys in Seattle support granting personhood to chimps. 
> They teach sign language to their offspring and they invent new words, 
> such as Washo signing "water" and "bird" together when she first saw a 
> duck.
>
> Off course, I'm still willing to switch from persons to any being that 
> feels pain, but I'm sure meat eaters of the world are not ready for a 
> consistent pro-life position.
>
> Tofu Boogers Forever,
>
> Nick Gier
>
> Yes, I eat so much tofu that it is coming out my nose.
>
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