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From: Singhals <>
Subject: Re: Ethical Question
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 21:16:10 -0700


Seanette Blaylock wrote:
>
> Scott Gring had some very interesting things to say about "Re:
> Ethical Question":
> > Many people are perfectly
> >happy with having been raised in an adopted family, and may not even
> >be aware they were adopted. Please don't do it.
>
> Uh, I suspect that KACraine's statement below:
>
> >> But now I'm torn--I have information that may be
> >> invaluable to a person searching for her birth mother, which I came
> >> upon purely by accident.
>
> strongly suggests that the adoptee knows about it. After all, most
> people who aren't adopted or don't know they are don't bother
> searching for a birth mother. :-)


In the original post from KACraine, it was obvious that she was
speaking in the future conditional and does not know the people in
question. The snippet does tend to suggest otherwise, but the full
text and context indicated KACraine had merely stumbled across some
mis-filed info someone COULD want under the right conditions.

Cheryl

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