(September 10, 2015 at 4:42 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Hell is a state of being a person chooses to be in. There's no way of knowing for sure who will or will not "be in" Hell, but even if there was, it would still be wrong to kill them while they are babies/children, 1. because they are entitled to make their own choices, and 2. because regardless of a person's fate, they are still people who have just as much right to life as anyone else.
I have two points, but I'm going to just ignore the whole "choosing to be in hell" thing. That's kind of a separate topic.
1. You still haven't addressed the fact that even if someone has the right to life, violating that right is the lesser of two evils if the other choice is allowing a person to go to hell.
2. How can you put so much emphasis on this life? Our experience on Earth here wouldn't even be a nano-second compared to an eternal existence. Considering this life is so insignificant compared to the consequences of eternal judgement, it seems you should be minimizing its importance compared to our eternal destination.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell