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Article #148Re: Euthanasia banned in Australia!
From: Martin Gleeson
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:00
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In article <5h7s6f$1c5@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>,
paul@xenu.ee.mu.oz.au (Paul Dwerryhouse) wrote:
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>Even a single speaker using religion as his or her basis for making a
>decision is a misuse of the power that they have.
Minor point: in a practical sense, most people's morals and ethics are based
in religion - those that have been brought up that way, which is a majority.
It's impossible to divorce the two, and unreasonable to expect a politician
making a conscience vote to not use their conscience.
Cheers,
Marty.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111fed,4fda6cbcf2422f54 X-Google-Attributes: gid111fed,public X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,4fda6cbcf2422f54 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public X-Google-Thread: 1083c4,4fda6cbcf2422f54 X-Google-Attributes: gid1083c4,public From: gleeson@unimelb.edu.au (Martin Gleeson) Subject: Re: Euthanasia banned in Australia! Date: 1997/03/25 Message-ID: <gleeson-2503972302060001@10.0.2.15> X-Deja-AN: 228212545 Distribution: world References: <5h65r8$nkk$1@euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au> <5h6tgl$4rf@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <adm.859245361@ccadfa> <5h7s6f$1c5@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Organization: The University of Melbourne, Australia Newsgroups: talk.euthanasia,aus.politics,aus.general