<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gabrbedd@gmail.com">gabrbedd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Paul Davis wrote:<br>
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On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:55 PM, <<a href="mailto:fons@kokkinizita.net" target="_blank">fons@kokkinizita.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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Using farming machinery (*tractor) would even be more<br>
difficult to justify...<br>
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i note that some 15-20 years ago, i was quite a rabid reader of the<br>
agricultural movement that decried the use of the plough, an attitude<br>
that was even more rabid when it came to the tractor that pulls a<br>
plough. those guys would excoriate anyone who suggested using these<br>
tools; i, on the other hand, am quite happy to refer people towards<br>
rui's very nice device.<br>
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When I was in college, an elder gentleman said:<br>
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In the 1960's they invented the Simpson reaper, and it was adopted very quicly without any question.<br>
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Meanwhile in the 1960's, they developed localized anesthesia for use in childbirth. However, this got mired in controversy over whether or not it was "ethical" to allow women to opt-out of God's curse that a woman should have increased labor pains.<br>
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-gabriel<br>
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p.s. for those who aren't bible scholars, in Genesis 3 God curses women with "greatly increased pains in childbearing" (Ge 3:16), but men were cursed: "By the sweat of your brow<br>
you will eat your food until you return to the ground...."<br></blockquote></div><br><br>There is rexona for men now... Not ethical if you ask me! ;)<br>