30th January 2003, 11:32 PM
In other words, although you did finally attack my main point, you did so with an arbitrary statement of when life begins. In a debate, you want to stay away from the arbitrary as much as possible.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)