XPost: talk.politics, alt.law-enforcement, alt.true-crime   
   XPost: talk.philosophy.humanism   
   From: gowch@SPAMTHEENOThotmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 03:23:37 GMT, "Daniel T."    
   wrote:   
      
   [snip]   
      
   ==>The best way to prove the above wrong is to go to a park and find a   
   ==>child willing to go home with you. Then see how much trouble you get   
   ==>into because you took someone else's property. The same thing doesn't   
   ==>happen if you find a girlfriend or even wife to go home with you,   
   ==>because she doesn't belong to anyone... Children are property.   
      
   		Bullshit.  In no sense of the word are children   
   		"property."  They may be in their parents' legal   
   		custody, but they are persons, with rights that   
   		are wholly separate and distinct from their   
   		parents'.   
      
   		If you don't believe this, try breaking your kid's   
   		arm, and see how the law treats assholes who   
   		treat their children as "property."   
      
      
      
      
   --   
   Better an abortion clinic on every streetcorner   
   than the birth of one more unwanted child.   
      
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