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echo: philos
to: FRIEDRICH ENGELS
from: ANDREW CUMMINS
date: 1998-01-04 11:33:00
subject: Vicarious murder

 -=> Quoting Friedrich Engels to Frank Masingill <=-
 FE> A study, I'm sure you're familiar with (since it is rather
 FE> famous), has proven that also. A scientist would hook up another
 FE> scientist in a chair. The scientist would bring in volounteers and
 FE> would tell them to press a button. He explained that by pressing this
 FE> button, the scientist in the chair would recieve an almost deadly
 FE> shock. 80% of the people pressed the button. When the scientist left
 FE> the room, 30% of the people pressed the button. 
 FE> Humans are controllable.
Right.  If you offered the average pregnant woman the opportunity
to kill her unborn baby, would probably recoil in horror. But, if
you tell her that abortion is a woman's right and a choice that
she shouldn't let any man take from her, all of a sudden she's
pushing that button.
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