(December 7, 2013 at 9:10 pm)The_Thinking_Theist Wrote: Atheists say that Death Penalty is murder, but they condone abortion.Way to pigeonhole all atheists.
I condone abortion. I would condone the death penalty if there was any way to know we were applying it without error. As we clearly have and continue to occasionally execute innocent people, I have grave reservations about the death penalty.
Quite a few atheists here disagree with me, on both counts.
Quote:I believe that all life is sacred, so I condone both ideas as a type of murder.If there's one thing that is absolutely clear, it's that life isn't sacred. It's cheap- everywhere but in my socioeconomic class in the Western world.
Is that sad? Yes. But these first-world issues you're quibbling over are pretty fucking pale in comparison to the misery, pain, and death that happen in the poverty-stricken, war-torn shitholes of the world. If you think all life is so sacred, I'm sure you're on top of that.