RE: Pro-life atheists
May 26, 2014 at 3:53 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2014 at 4:01 pm by Chas.)
(May 19, 2014 at 6:32 pm)BlackSwordsman Wrote:(May 19, 2014 at 5:48 pm)Avodaiah Wrote: There must be such a thing. After all, you don't have to believe in a god to stick up for the rights of the unborn.
Thoughts?
I have always been pro-life. My understanding is that no matter what the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy, bad or good, rape or not. That child that innocent baby had nothing to do with it. They are without blame, why place the blame of a rapist on a baby, wasn't that childs fault.
Why should it suffer?
There is always adoption. Don't want it, give it to someone who cannot have a child, who's spent a fortune on having kids without success.
As a Buddhist, (moderately monastic) the view is that life begins at conception and all life is valuable.
My dear kid brother, would not be here had his 12 year old mother aborted him. She had him, gave him up for adoption.
In doing so my mother and I have had the pleasure of having him in our lives (my adopted family could not have children)
Well, except without a brain and a nervous system there is no person, and certainly no suffering.
The rest is an appeal to emotion.
Your argument fails.
(May 20, 2014 at 2:50 am)BlackSwordsman Wrote:
The offense was taken because you either overlooked "repeated rape" or devalued the trauma of that.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.