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Tao Stoic 49

"Master, I did not so well in a discussion. I did not know the True Words for it."

"I am surprised. What was it about?"

"It was about infanticide Master, properly called 'abortus provocatus criminalis'. I could not tell, when the infant was the result of rape."

"It is the usual approach from these killing bastards, to imagine that all unwanted children are the product of rape. The ancients had the gods for explaining the pregnancy. Did you not state that Life is sacred?"

"I did Master, but then, ... rape."

"Is it not an ethical question?

"Indeed it is Master."

"Then, apply ethical fundaments. The fourth rule says: 'Act as you would like others to act in the same circumstances'. Put yourself in the place of others, Man is the measure. The answer, then, is very clear."

"In the place of the mother to be?"

"God forbid! No. You do not plan to murder her. It is the child's murder that is in play. Hence, what would you decide, were you the child, rape or not, in utero?"

"I see it now Master."


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Ven 2005-01-24