X-Message-Number: 18389
From: "Mark Plus" <>
Subject: "Sanctity of Human Life Week"
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:22:26 -0800

This week is supposed to be "Sanctity of Human Life Week."  E.g., link to,

http://www.family.org/pregnancy/general/A0017923.html

However, the people who support such a celebration seem to have arbitrarily 
defined "human life" as fetuses and babies, and are directing their energies 
towards stopping abortions.  They don't seem to be nearly as bothered by the 
totally needless destruction of older humans due to assaults, degenerative 
diseases, misadventures and aging -- needless, that is to say, if the 
reasoning behind the cryonics proposal turns out to be empirically 
vindicated.

It seems to me that a logically and morally consistent "sanctitarian" 
philosophy would practically converge with Immortalism.  This hasn't  
happened yet in part because of creationist beliefs about vulnerability to 
death being part of humanity's "intelligent design."

Mark Plus

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