[Vision2020] Re: Nick's pompous lecturing continues........

[ToeKneeTime at aol.com]

Professor,
 
You ask that I stop using the term "Teach".  I've ask you to  acknowledge the 
humanity of unborn children.  Referring to a professor as a  teacher hardly 
ranks with referring to human beings as undeserving of human  rights.  You 
insist that I not call you names or question your  advocacy of mass killing.  Wow, 
maybe you ought to take a course in  perspective, cuz yours is waay off.
 
You blurt that I avoid honest debate.  But it's you who has avoided  the 
obvious consequences of abortion with euphemisms and intricate  rationalizations 
of what is simply premeditated killing.  Are you sure your  name isn't Mengele?
 
Can't you distinguish "significant mental life" as demonstrated by, say,  
Thomas Sowell or Albert Einstein from that of Cheeta or Lassie?  Our  advanced 
intellectual capacity, our reasoning, is our purpose.  Not to  swing from limbs 
or bark at the mailman.  Still, I never said that this  capacity ALONE 
distinguished us as human, or person, if you prefer.  The  conceptus should be 
regarded as a person, as a human, because it resulted from  the union of two humans, 
two people.  If unmolested it would continue it's  development as a human 
being.  For you or any one to set an arbitrary  developmental level as the point 
at which they are deserving of human rights, is  to set yourself up as God.
 
And what's with this perverse insistence on putting words in my  mouth?  You 
insist that I called God a "person", and then chew my ass as to  the 
implications.  But I never made any such statement.  Perhaps in  the process of playing 
Guru, you got me confused with one of your  sycophants.  You accuse me of 
saying that we will never understand the full  nature of the soul, if it exists.  
Never made that statement either.   My statement was far more optimistic.
 
Nick, until you stop quoting out of context, putting words in my mouth and  
then lecturing me from a false premise, this dialog is going nowhere.
 
But it beats sitting naked in a bean bag chair while watching television  and 
eating Cheetos.
 
Best,  --Tony
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