"In my public presentation of this illustration at the University of Notre Dame in 2005, I used the Star Trek character of Spock rather than Sarek in my example. It was, however, pointed out by the moderator, Gerard V. Bradley (Professor, Notre Dame Law School), that the character of Spock is half-human, and thus my illustration was not quite to the point. So, that is why I employ the character of Sarek, Spock’s full-Vulcan father, in the published version. Special thanks to the logical Professor Bradley for correcting me on this matter. May he live long and prosper."
- Francis Beckwith, Legal Professor at Baylor University, who in his lecture today (which I attended) on Roe v. Wade used the Vulcan illustration when discussing characteristics of personhood versus human being.
"Oh, let's not rake up old graves. I don't wanna talk about whether Spock was a human or Vulcan or vice versa."
- David Brent, on discussing the last time Gareth was Quiz Master, where controversies over Quiz Mastering nearly cost The Dead Parrots their win. David relives the fateful evening in which Gareth had the incorrect answer to the question "What type of alien is Mr. Spock?" Spock is not a full Vulcan as Gareth claimed, but half-Vulcan and half-human. To that Gareth says now what he said then, "Look at his ears." Apparently, David was so convinced of his answer that he rented a cab to go home and get some Star Trek literature to prove his point.
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if you can work chris finch, a.k.a. "finchy", into some of your legal theory, you'd probably be working with an amazing example of middle-class deprativy. but he's damn good at quizzing.
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