[geeks] Socialized medicine

[Lionel Peterson]

On Jun 4, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:

> Arno Kletzander wrote:
>
>>> If it's merely the capacity to develop that self-awareness that
>>> grants human rights, onanism should be a capital crime.
>> And the Jewish and Christian religions regard it as such or at least
>> did until very recently. This came from the medieval belief that the
>> male semen is "human seed" which grows in the womb like plant seeds
>> grow in the ground. If you look at it from a modern point of view and
>> count in the female contribution, it becomes even worse: it would be
>> morally wrong to "waste" an egg by not having it fertilized! (It is
>> flushed out with the next menstrual cycle then.)
>> So long, Arno
>
>
> Um, you are off by quite a number of years.
>
> Onan, from whom the word onanism was derived, was a character in the  
> Old Testament and thus would have lived in the Middle East at least  
> 400 years before the birth of Jesus. That is, you are off by at  
> least 1600 years.

And I hear he was a real jerk-off too ;^)

Sorry...

Lionel