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rabo12

    • 15 Jan 07
    • 3:03 pm

    If you have read the above comments of LB and WTH, and have followed this debate at all in the last 20 years (at least) you realize quite quickly that this is a difficult argument. Arguments of this caliber don't seem to offer much grey area since the examples often used in support of it or against tend to be so extreme. This results in often times being forced into an extreme position, either you're in favor of it or you are not. I am not in favor of death under any circumstances. If a human being is deemed unfit for …

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    • 17 Jan 07
    • 12:23 am

    David nice play on the sentence. And good German too, I think. I'm American just living in Europe. Actually living in France so I'm not really sure why the German flag appeared.

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    • 17 Jan 07
    • 2:38 am

    Dave I enjoyed your response as well. It reminded me of a time when someone waiting in line at the movies uttered to his friend "I'll wait for the tickets and you grab the drinks that way we can kill two birds with one stone." Suddenly a kind man turned and said "or you can feed those two birds with the same seed." I've been using that phrase ever since. peace

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    • 17 Jan 07
    • 4:11 pm

    Nice one WTH hadn't thought about what I said like that but at the moment, laughing out loud! cheers!

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