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>a shame you lost it. Please

> understand, since you say the reply included something about

sex...

 

Sorry, I didn't realize you would have read it that way. I was being

flippant, in an everybody is interested in something with sex kind

of way (even though it isn't true). It's my psychological makeup

though - mood swings!

 

> By classifying a beating up as less than killing (it seems

obvious, and I

> fail to see why that would be inflammatory)...

 

You specifically used a counter example that you knew would be

something Jane would feel strongly about. That's what makes it

inflammatory. Not that it takes away from the point I raised about

suffering. Is it really so obvious that being killed is worse than

being tortured?

 

> Maybe because of your

> psychological make-up, you cannot feel the same about this

issue.

 

You would be very surprised then. Not only do I have a good

capacity for empathizing with positions foreign to my own (it

makes it so much easier to be judgmental and patronizing when

you know what you're talking about) but that aside my opinion on

abortion came from science.

 

Michael