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Georgia59 Especially eHealthy
December 4th, 2007
So we're now in a parallel universe where humans reproduce like plants. There is a person-seed season where the person seed plants let the seeds go and they fly through the air looking for things to catch on to. During this season, if you want a baby, you normally wash your house thoroughly paying special attention to any soft porous surfaces and making sure everything is clean and safe. You then open all your windows and let the seeds blow into the house, hoping that one will settle into your couch's throw and start to grow into a baby.

However, your neighbors are terrible, lazy people. They didn't even realize it was person-seed season, and didn't pay attention at all to the careful cleaning of their home or disinfecting of their couch's throw. In fact, they've had parties every weekend and their house is overwrought with beer bottles and paper plates. They left their windows open and a person-seed got in, and began to grow, in this terrible, irresponsible environment.

Do your neighbors have a right to dig up and throw away that person-seed? What should happen to it/them?
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Georgia59
replied December 4th, 2007
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Oh btw- I didn't come up with this one either, it was Judith something or another, another well known argument from an article I read for a class.
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Tylanas
replied December 4th, 2007
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Hmn... Well, if the party-house wasn't planning on getting any seeds and accidentally got one, I do feel they have the right to dig it up. It's a little sad, but if they aren't ready for a baby, and if they do not have a proper home, and if the seed is potentially harmed due to the environment, then I can't see how it's responsible for them to raise that baby. I would call it very irresponsible!

They should have kept their windows closed or put up screens perhaps; but accidents happen.
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sillyakchick
replied December 4th, 2007
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I used to live in a house like that. Luckily, no person seeds arrived until I had a chance to clean up the place. If they had, I most certainly would have dug them up and thrown them into the compost heap.
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oopoop
replied December 5th, 2007
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Could you just donte th ouch on freecycle to someone who want one?
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sillyakchick
replied December 5th, 2007
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Well, I didn't want it growing in my filthy house that whole time. I wouldn't have wanted it to get dirty, or broken or something. Nobody wants a broken baby.
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Georgia59
replied December 5th, 2007
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Right- and unless they dig up the person seed right away, it has to stay there (in the dumpy party house) the whole season until it turns into a baby. You can't dig it up and transplant it.
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SmartyShirt
replied December 5th, 2007
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the get all their seeds they dont need and give it to someone who wants one
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sillyakchick
replied December 5th, 2007
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That's a fine idea, but if the people aren't capable of cleaning house and keeping it clean for 40 weeks, they will have a damaged person to give to others. Believe it or not, sometimes even if a person WANTS to clean house and keep it that way, they forget to take out the garbage and after a while the whole house begins to stink and become dirty.
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Birch
replied December 5th, 2007
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SmartyShirt wrote:
the get all their seeds they dont need and give it to someone who wants one


That is a whole lot of gardening to do for nothing.
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SmartyShirt
replied December 5th, 2007
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but its ok becuz we dont want the seeds to a isxhbcziopdfajb

die
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Tylanas
replied December 5th, 2007
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Jesus, please speak legible english.
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SmartyShirt
replied December 5th, 2007
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sorry
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Verizon-y
replied December 6th, 2007
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SmartyShirt wrote:
the get all their seeds they dont need and give it to someone who wants one


People do this in IVF clinics with embryos. They donate their extra embryos to people who want to adopt them.
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SmartyShirt
replied December 6th, 2007
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thats bertter than ABORTING them
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sillyakchick
replied December 6th, 2007
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But how do you know that?
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Tylanas
replied December 6th, 2007
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And why?
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Georgia59
replied December 6th, 2007
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It's true that they were irresponsible- but does it really make sense to punish people by making them take care of a baby? (In utero or out)

And of course, what about the people who did the responsible thing and closed their house up to protect against the seeds but one got in through a hole in the screen?
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Georgia59
replied December 6th, 2007
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Judith Thompson

I think was the woman who wrote these
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Jincks013
replied December 6th, 2007
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SmartyShirt wrote:
thats bertter than ABORTING them


??? you can't abort something that hasn't implanted and become a pregnancy. I'd have thought that was obvious.
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