[MD] Intellectual activity

[Platt Holden]

Craig:

> Platt,
> I think you're applying the MOQ too simplistically:
> [Platt]
> > Thus jobs for loggers trumps the spotted owl, the life of an unborn
> > trumps a
>  > woman's decision to abort...  
> 
> Lumberjacks (despite the Monty Python song) do not have a right to their
> jobs, any more than French teenagers do.  The HUMAN who is a lumberjack
> is to be valued higher than the ANIMAL who is a spotted owl.  However,
> it doesn't follow that the JOB of logger (or bank robber, etc.) is to be
> valued higher than a spotted owl.

A human's life is more valuable than an animal's. A human must work to 
live.

> A mother is at the intellectual level;
> an embryo at the biological level.  Her decision should prevail.

An human embryo has the potential to respond to DQ. It presents no 
threat to society and thus should not be executed.

No more "simplistic" than your applications of the MOQ.

Platt