<DIV>Chas,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I don't think a baby can be guilty of a crime, and I wasn't insinuating that. Keely knows that, and it was either a joke, or she was being intellectually dishonest. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My point was she was offended by the use of a word to describe a baby to illustrate a context, I was demonstrating the point that liberals do that same thing using the term fetus when they want to abort it, and baby when they don't. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best Regards,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan<BR><BR><B><I>Chasuk <chasuk@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Donovan Arnold<BR><DONOVANJARNOLD2005@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR><BR>> Why do liberals call them children when they are illegal immigrants but an<BR>> aborted fetus when they are an economic inconvenience?<BR><BR>This
thread has grown puzzling. First, because I am mystified by<BR>Keey's objection to the use of the word "spawn." I consider it nearly<BR>synonymous with the word "offspring," both of which I have used to<BR>refer to my own children, with no derogatory intent. I also refer to<BR>my brothers and sisters as "siblings," and to my wife, occasionally,<BR>as "spouse."<BR><BR>Donovan, I THINK this diversion occurred because of your fractured sentence:<BR><BR>"If someone born here is born here in the commission of a crime<BR>against the country, I don't think you can argue that always<BR>necessarily entitles automatic citizenship."<BR><BR>Keely playfully pointed out the infants cannot be guilty of committing<BR>any crime. I think that this should be uncontroversial.<BR><BR>So why the abortion hijack? The obvious answer to your question --<BR>obvious to this liberal, anyway -- is that I call children "children"<BR>and fetuses "fetuses." Setting the semantic squabble aside, how
is<BR>your question a logical response to anything that has come before?<BR><BR>Chas<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>http://www.fsr.net <BR>mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>=======================================================<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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