Re: If life is a benefit...

Russt wrote:

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> > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 18:01:58 GMT, ipse dixit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > If life is a benefit, then it's logically certain that
> > no life [ie never existing at all] is a loss.
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>
> How can something never existing be a loss?
> Loss denotes a subtraction of something.

That's what I've been telling Fuckwit (nee David 
Harrison) for several years.  Nonetheless, here's what 
Fuckwit believes:

       Yes, it is the unborn animals that will be
       born if nothing prevents that from happening,
       that would experience the loss if their lives
       are prevented.
       Fuckwit - 08/01/2000

> I do not have a Jaguar (the car not the animal).
> I do not feel loss of not having one, a desire to have one perhaps.
> Perhaps even frustration as I cannot (or may never) afford one.
>
> If I had a Jaguar and it was stolen, I would  feel a loss ( if my insurance
> does not cover.)