RE: Abortion/Consciousness/Life
July 20, 2014 at 5:11 pm
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2014 at 5:13 pm by Dystopia.)
(July 20, 2014 at 5:09 pm)Rhythm Wrote:Quote:But the risks are the same.Close enough - :the crowd goes wild!:
The risks are the same. So? Conceptually not doing anything is still different than doing something. But the result is the same. I wasn't arguing on that. My preoccupation was merely with a conceptual problem. Both murder by omission and qualified murder are punishable and prohibited, they are both crimes with the same result, this doesn't mean we can't make a distinction to theorize both forms...
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you