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This is a diversion from the discussion and I am sorry for that, but personally, I find that the killing of one of the perilously numbered mountain gorillas in Central Africa to be more akin to murder than the abortion of a human fetus.
And who says that we are special...besides ourselves?
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
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